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B-Rad from the Boo, aka Jamie Kennedy, is along for today’s ride with Captain Brien! On this episode of the #naplescaptainslog, Jamie Kennedy talks about how he got started, Malibu’s Most Wanted, his comedy career, and of course Hecklers!
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Captain Brien: What’s up guys? We are back. My man – What’s up guys? We are back. My man Jamie Kennedy. Dude, what’s happening?
Jamie Kennedy: What’s up baby? Look–
Captain Brien: This your second appearance on The Log?
Jamie Kennedy: On the Log, dude. You got Live on Air. Your killin’ me dude.
Captain Brien: I know, right. I know.
Jamie Kennedy: I was just sleeping like this and you made me sit up.
Captain Brien: I gotta always keep you awake though. It’s a…
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: You’re ready to go. You’re ready to go.
Jamie Kennedy: Early guys. It’s early guys.
Captain Brien: It’s not hard.
Jamie Kennedy: It’s an early guys. Hopefully this is only going on since. You know.
Captain Brien: Let’s do it. We’re taking a ride now. We just left 105.5, The Beat. We’re heading over to Big Momma and The WiLD Bunch and… Dude.
Jamie Kennedy: So we should document everything.
Captain Brien: I like to keep it real.
Jamie Kennedy: Oh, yeah.
Captain Brien: You know. We do everything live on this podcast.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. Okay.
Captain Brien: The last… We should put the car in drive though–
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: instead of neutral and revving it up right there.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: You got in late?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah, dude. I’m tired. Can we go to Dunkin?
Captain Brien: Dunkin’s my jam.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: Are you a Dunkin guy?
Jamie Kennedy: I love Dunkin.
Captain Brien: Yeah. Starbucks isn’t my thing.
Jamie Kennedy: I know, Dunkin’s got the best flavor.
Captain Brien: Oh, you’ve got some comments already.
Captain Brien: Look at these guys. Hey, what’s happening? If you guys want to ask me a question about Jamie Kennedy, I’m sure he’s gonna answer it, but in the mean time…
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: We’re gonna leave Fort Myers and head toward Estero and then back to Naples ’cause you’re at Off the Hook Comedy Club tonight through Saturday.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. I mean–
Captain Brien: One show tonight.
Jamie Kennedy: Mm-hm.
Captain Brien: Two Friday, two Saturday.
Jamie Kennedy: Yep.
Captain Brien: And their gonna get the freakin’ show of their life.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah, man. Wasn’t I like the first dude to play your club?
Captain Brien: You were one of the first major headliners to play the club and we’ve been buddies ever since, right?
Captain Brien: Right. We’ve had some times together.
Captain Brien: We have.
Jamie Kennedy: We can’t talk about ’em live.
Captain Brien: Wait. Why can’t we? We should.
Jamie Kennedy: Uh.
Captain Brien: We’re both single now.
Jamie Kennedy: Uh, I mean, you know. You never know.
Captain Brien: It was a facility that was legal.
Jamie Kennedy: Nah. I can’t–
Captain Brien: We weren’t doing illegal business.
Jamie Kennedy: We were just having some burritos. We were. That’s all we’re doing. I love Florida.
Captain Brien: Florida. Is Florida one of your favorite places to come?
Jamie Kennedy: Dude, it’s the best.
Captain Brien: Who would not want to come? Right, I mean we have all–?
Jamie Kennedy: I don’t know. I don’t know.
Captain Brien: we have great comedy clubs, not just mine, but there’s a ton. Like we have, I think the second or the third most comedy clubs in the U.S.
Jamie Kennedy: I think you do too. I play, like, ten clubs here.
Captain Brien: Right?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: I know. The think is like the weather is always nice. You could come here, right now, and relax in eighty degree weather or you could be in Michigan freezing your nuts off.
Jamie Kennedy: Dude, I come in last night, I go to Wing Stop, I get my wings–
Captain Brien: What’d you eat at Wing Stop?
Jamie Kennedy: I had Wing Stop. I ate in the Wing Stop.
Captain Brien: How many wings?
Jamie Kennedy: 12.
Captain Brien: No problem.
Jamie Kennedy: Lemon pepper, bone. I’m happy. The prog–
Captain Brien: Is lemon pepper your jam?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. It’s–
Captain Brien: Always? I never had the lemon pepper at wing stop.
Jamie Kennedy: Ah, the bomb.
Captain Brien: We should go.
Jamie Kennedy: We should right now. I got a plug from Wing Stop.
Captain Brien: Yeah. They should pay us.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: These son of a bitches aren’t giving us any money for this cred.
Jamie Kennedy: It’s a great wing.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: I’m just gonna tell you–
Captain Brien: To get it well done and regular? Extra crispy or no?
Jamie Kennedy: Crispy, yeah.
Captain Brien: Crispy.
Jamie Kennedy: I do like crispy.
Captain Brien: People like ’em crispy.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. I do.
Captain Brien: I go crispy too.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: I like hot sauce and then maybe a little sweet and sour.
Jamie Kennedy: Man.
Captain Brien: But, I’m always the guy that’s like, can you give me like two lemon pepper, two teriyaki, two hot sauce? And they’re like, no dude we can’t do that. You got to buy.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah, because you have, uh, asked a lot. That’s high maintenance.
Captain Brien: I’m high. I am high–
Jamie Kennedy: High maintenance wing.
Captain Brien: I’m a high maintenance dude.
Jamie Kennedy: You’re the–
Captain Brien: Do you put blue cheese?
Jamie Kennedy: Nah.
Captain Brien: Or do you do uh–
Jamie Kennedy: I eat them with the lemon pepper, bro.
Captain Brien: No blue cheese?
Jamie Kennedy: Nah.
Captain Brien: Ranch?
Jamie Kennedy: Uh, maybe.
Captain Brien: I don’t know why I’m talking so much about wings.
Jamie Kennedy: I don’t know why either. Dude, wait, you’ve been doing this for what two years? This Captain’s Log?
Captain Brien: Thirteen years.
Jamie Kennedy: I don’t remember thirteen years ago.
Captain Brien: You know why?
Jamie Kennedy: Why?
Captain Brien: Because I was lazy and I was married at the time and my wife, ex-wife now
Jamie Kennedy: Right.
Captain Brien: hated me to always be live.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: And she was holding me down, bro.
Jamie Kennedy: Ah. You don’t want to–
Captain Brien: Now, I’m just like, I’m just live 24/7.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. You’re living the dream.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: Your living the–
Captain Brien: So, I started doing it really like daily now. The show is evey day, except Sundays, sometimes I don’t do it. But if I do it on Saturday, I’ll do like a recap or I’ll go to the Farmer’s Market or something.
Jamie Kennedy: You do a show every day?
Captain Brien: Yeah. Every day, man.
Jamie Kennedy: For how long?
Captain Brien: Twenty minutes.
Jamie Kennedy: Wow.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: The Captain’s Log.
Captain Brien: The Captain’s Log is moving up.
Jamie Kennedy: Wow. Every day you–
Captain Brien: We had 200 thousand views last week.
Jamie Kennedy: Really?
Captain Brien: Yeah. For the week. Not every episode, but for the week. It’s about 150 to 250–
Jamie Kennedy: Okay.
Captain Brien: thousand views between our podcast that’s on podcast, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram.
Jamie Kennedy: All right.
Captain Brien: I mean, you can get it everywhere.
Jamie Kennedy: Man.
Captain Brien: ITunes, Stitcher.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: You should tell people how they can find you.
Jamie Kennedy: You can find me at thejamiekennedy on Insta, atjamiekennedy on Twitter, uh–
Captain Brien: By the way he’s crazy to follow.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Captain Brien: Do you do anything normal every day or is your day just wild?
Jamie Kennedy: I don’t know. It mixes it up.
Captain Brien: You do, right?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. But some days I like to do nothing, but I don’t know, in a weird way.
Captain Brien: It is a weird life traveling. A traveling comedian is not normal.
Jamie Kennedy: Uh-uh. Uh-uh.
Captain Brien: It’s… There’s a distinct person that it takes to be on the road this many days.
Jamie Kennedy: Well–
Captain Brien: I mean not everybody wants to do it. I don’t want to do it.
Jamie Kennedy: I heard this lady talking to her kid yesterday and her kid’s news it was like a long–
Captain Brien: You gotta talk a little louder.
Jamie Kennedy: I heard–
Captain Brien: I mean, this place is really mic’d up for sound.
Jamie Kennedy: Really?
Captain Brien: Yeah. Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: I’m trying to be normal.
Captain Brien: No, you gotta talk.
Jamie Kennedy: God! He wants me to be loud. I saw… Dude, come on, you kidding me? I can’t talk normal?
Captain Brien: No, you gotta–
Jamie Kennedy: You can’t hear all that?
Captain Brien: I want to make sure.
Jamie Kennedy: but they can’t. Dude, this lady was traveling with her daughter and the daughter was like man, we traveled so long. We took… It was five hours, two to drive to the airport and three on the flight. I’m like, that’s just one of my flights today.
Captain Brien: Right. Exactly.
Jamie Kennedy: I did two flights today. One flight yesterday.
Captain Brien: And you called me at 4 in the morning.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: And you were like yo, I want to change my flight.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: I was like, dude, who else am I gonna call to confirm any of this? Like, I’m the only idiot up at 4:30 a.m. listening to you.
Jamie Kennedy: And he was up and using like, exclamation points. Like, hey, buddy, I don’t know if we can G. Like you were up, dude.
Captain Brien: I usually am. I’m, like, ready to go. Why were you up? Were you still not gone to sleep or what?
Jamie Kennedy: No, I’m on west coast.
Captain Brien: Oh, so, yeah. So, it wasn’t frickin’ 4:30 a.m.?
Jamie Kennedy: Yes. Can you guys hear me? Do I have to talk like that? I don’t have to talk like that, do I?
Captain Brien: No. But I’m loud all the time. I’m Italian.
Jamie Kennedy: I know.
Captain Brien: You’re never loud, really.
Jamie Kennedy: I’m chill, bro. I’m loud on stage.
Captain Brien: Yeah. Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: That’s where I get it out.
Captain Brien: That’s where you make it happen.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. And then online from Chill.
Captain Brien: This is my stage.
Jamie Kennedy: I know.
Captain Brien: I don’t get on stage.
Jamie Kennedy: I know. You want to though.
Captain Brien:I don’t.
Jamie Kennedy: You do.
Captain Brien: You think?
Jamie Kennedy: Come, dude you’re… Come on.
Captain Brien: This is purely for the entertainment of my followers.
Jamie Kennedy: That’s it.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: Like, I have nothing else to do all day. I have no liquor to sell.
Jamie Kennedy: Nothing?
Captain Brien: No, I got…
Jamie Kennedy: You want to talk about your liquor?
Captain Brien: I do. I want to talk about it. Why would I not want to talk about that deliciousness? Sugar-free, Gluten-free, all-natural, Florida made.
Jamie Kennedy: It does… I’m not really drinking right now but it does look good.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: It really does look clean. I have to be honest with you. I’m impressed with it, dude.
Captain Brien: It’s all organic, dude.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: I keep it nice. I’m doing the work.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: You know what I mean. Like, I want you to be healthy when you drink. Why are you not drinking right now? You doing a cleanse?
Jamie Kennedy: I dropped some weight and I feel good.
Captain Brien: You look good.
Jamie Kennedy: Thanks, bro.
Captain Brien: I like that.
Jamie Kennedy: Stop hitting
Captain Brien: I mean, it’s good. I’m gonna give you a little boop-boop
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: on the boobie.
Jamie Kennedy: Nothing wrong with that. It’s consent.
Captain Brien: It is.
Jamie Kennedy: Dude, yeah, man, you’re liquor looks good.
Captain Brien: It’s really good. I mean, it’s only been four months and we’re basically all over Florida, now.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: We’re trying to break out of the state. I gotta get out of this big ass state.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: And then that… Then it’ll be on.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. Okay.
Captain Brien: I mean, you can’t… I mean, I gotta figure, like, L.A. wants a… the lowest calorie count vodka on the market, right?
Jamie Kennedy: Definitely.
Captain Brien: Sugar-free, gluten-free, so I’m trying to get into L.A.
Jamie Kennedy: Definitely.
Captain Brien: And Miami, has done well with it, but I still could do huge things.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: So, we’re working on it.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: And I’ve got guys like you helping me promote it.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah, man.
Captain Brien: Like, how can that be a bad thing?
Jamie Kennedy: Dude, it looks beautiful. Barrel-aged bourbon.
Captain Brien: Rum.
Jamie Kennedy: Rum.
Captain Brien: In bourbon barrels. That’s–
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. Bourbon rum.
Captain Brien: Yeah. We put the… We make the rum and then we smoke bourbon barrels and we age it in there for two months.
Captain Brien: It’s a good thing.
Jamie Kennedy: You know what I think that would be good? I’m not drinking right now but if I was I would take one of those KeVita drinks. You know what those are?
Captain Brien: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: Apple cider, they have a ginger drink that’s so good. It’s natural. I bet with some of your bourbon or your rum–
Captain Brien:That’d be great.
Jamie Kennedy: Ooh. Like that would actually be refreshing–
Captain Brien: I like that.
Jamie Kennedy: And get you a little toasty.
Captain Brien: Yeah. What’s your thing? You rather…
Jamie Kennedy: Ooh. It didn’t–
Captain Brien: Yeah. The car stops itself.
Jamie Kennedy: I know.
Captain Brien: It’s good.
Jamie Kennedy: Oh, it did.
Captain Brien: Yeah. Yeah. That’s why the peo–
Jamie Kennedy: Really. Can we not u… If you don’t brake it we’ll try–
Captain Brien: I won’t break. Well, we gotta give it gas.
Jamie Kennedy: Can you tell your… What, you can get in an accident?
Captain Brien: No! Watch.
Jamie Kennedy: Please don’t.
Captain Brien: I’m gonna test it.
Jamie Kennedy: Please don’t.
Captain Brien: Look, I’m not touching it. I’m not touching it. I’m not touching it. I’m not doing nothing. Yeah. Look, it’ll stay right in. Watch.
Jamie Kennedy: Wow.
Captain Brien: Stop.
Jamie Kennedy: Okay.
Captain Brien: Look. Look. Look. Look. Complete stop, bro.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. Wow.
Captain Brien: That’s good right?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: And then it wants to tell me.
Jamie Kennedy: Damn.
Captain Brien: It told me.
Jamie Kennedy: Okay.
Captain Brien: Say, put your foot back on the brake.
Jamie Kennedy: It’s just weird.
Captain Brien: It drives like that. It’s good. It’s good. It helps with The Captain’s Log. That way I can, you know, focus fifty percent of the time. Yeah, I know, people messaging me. I wonder if there’s a reason it… I mean–
Jamie Kennedy: Uh-oh. I want to see.
Captain Brien: I hope that they can hear us. Can you guys hear us okay?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: Yeah. Are we sure?
Jamie Kennedy: We’re low key.
Captain Brien: Mia, Britney, because some people are messaging me on text and I just wanted to make sure. Sometimes that happens, like, if the mics are wacky or something.
Jamie Kennedy: Um. Yeah.
Captain Brien: People are like, yo, message. But I don’t know why I can’t really see the messages. I just see the people are watching. They’re watching but they’re not messaging? Oh, then maybe they are. Anyway, tell me about what’s been going on in your life these days, man.
Jamie Kennedy: Oh, man. I’ve been working on… I just got my special.
Captain Brien: Yeah. That’s awesome. Where’d you shoot it?
Jamie Kennedy: I shot it in Huntington Beach at a place called The Rec Room. It’s awesome.
Captain Brien: Really?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: Is it like one of those, like, rock night club, kinda comedy club kinda places? Or is it a straight theater?
Jamie Kennedy: No, it’s a new… It’s a club, named by this guy, Hunter, and he’s like a connoisseur of comedy. He’s also a comedian and he made a really intimate venue and it’s just–
Captain Brien: Really.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. It’s just awesome.
Captain Brien: Why didn’t you shoot it at my venue, that’s what I want to know?
Jamie Kennedy: Dude, I didn’t know I could.
Captain Brien: Oh, okay. Like I have a–
Jamie Kennedy: I would have.
Captain Brien: Oh, my God.
Jamie Kennedy: South Florida.
Captain Brien: I thought we were so tight, dude.
Jamie Kennedy: We can. I can come back and shoot like an extra hour.
Captain Brien: Yeah. We can shoot, like, the behind the scenes with the Captain.
Jamie Kennedy: I’ve got stuff at your place though. Some good heckles.
Captain Brien: Some good jokes, too.
Jamie Kennedy: There’s some people… I’ve had some good interaction. You know that.
Captain Brien: You have.
Jamie Kennedy: Those white women like their white wine out here, in Naples.
Captain Brien: That’s a good thing. You keep it real on stage and then they like to speak up.
Jamie Kennedy: I know. There’s nothing wrong with that ladies. This weekend let me get my jokes out before you interrupt.
Captain Brien: Yeah. He doesn’t need a sidekick.
Jamie Kennedy: But, you know it’s Easter weekend so, you know, let’s get your white wine on.
Captain Brien: How’d you get on stage the first time?
Jamie Kennedy: How?
Captain Brien: How did that happen? Jamie Kennedy wants to be a comedian or Jamie Kennedy just fell into it? What happened?
Jamie Kennedy: I was moved to L.A. and I was interested in Hollywood and I was an extra, right. You know what that is?
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: And it was hard to become an extra, actually. There’s a lot of competition.
Captain Brien: Yeah. Everybody out there is like a server and they’re always extras everywhere.
Jamie Kennedy: Yes. So, it’s like, you know, hit you up and say we need a young high school student, you have these clothes or a security guard or whatever. You have to put yourself on avails. Anyway, I was kind of doing that, but it was hard. And my friend was just… works in a restaurant and the guy was like you’re funny, you should try stand-up and I didn’t know what it was. I knew what it was. Enough people told me and that’s when I was like… So, then I went to an open mic, I did it and I did good.
Captain Brien: Were you scared shitless?
Jamie Kennedy: Shitless. I had no idea at anything.
Captain Brien: Did you write down your jokes or did you just try to–?
Jamie Kennedy: Yes.
Captain Brien: You did.
Jamie Kennedy: I wrote down jokes and I also did Dana Carvey’s jokes.
Captain Brien: Were any of them any good beside Dana Carvey’s?
Jamie Kennedy: No, it was only Dana Carvey’s jokes.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: That were work. And I was like, I have nothing and like a couple jokes from a joke book. And then, but like an old joke book.
Captain Brien: Right.
Jamie Kennedy: And then I was like, oh, okay. What I learned from that was I could stay on stage and I could deliver a joke and I could make a crowd of people laugh.
Captain Brien: Sure.
Jamie Kennedy: And then I was like, hmm. So, then I tried it again and–
Captain Brien: Half the challenge is keeping the audience in tune.
Jamie Kennedy: Yes.
Captain Brien: They have to listen to what you say and some people, if you can’t do that, it doesn’t matter how funny your joke is.
Jamie Kennedy: Yes.
Captain Brien: They have to be listening.
Jamie Kennedy: They have to be. And so, that worked and then the next time I did it, I did it at a Ramada Inn and I bombed.
Captain Brien: You did? Did you–
Jamie Kennedy: Horrifically.
Captain Brien:Then what, were you scared–
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: Even more?
Jamie Kennedy: Then I didn’t do it for like six months.
Captain Brien: You took six months off. Did you write during those six months or did you say, like, I’m not doing it again, the hell with it?
Jamie Kennedy: Why would I do that? Why would I ever do that? That’s what I thought.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: So, I started. I did it. I could do it. Did it again. Can’t do it. And then around 1991, I started again.
Captain Brien: You just got balls back and said I’m gonna go back on stage.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. A little bit. Like this. And then, on and off open mic here and open mic there. Then 1992, I committed and I said, I’m gonna go to this open mic every day. There was an open mic every day from 5:00 to 7:00.
Captain Brien: Where was that?
Jamie Kennedy: It was called the L.A. Cabaret. It’s on Ventura Boulevard. And like now, comics pay for open mics which is crazy to me.
Captain Brien: They pay to get on stage.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. They pay.
Captain Brien: It’s so interesting because I’ll run an open mic and I’ll have literally like 40 people show up and every day goes… There’s not a day that goes by where someone’s like, when’s your open mic? So, I’ll have like 40 people sign-up, not show up. And then like literally, 15 people will show up and it’s the same 15 people that have been doing my open mics for ten years. It’s like what happened to the other 40 or the emails that I get every day? People saying, I want to do an open mic man. It’s so cool. You know what it is, they love the idea of being a comedian and doing the open mic but then when it comes down to getting on stage, I think that they don’t realize how much balls it takes and they get scared at the last minute.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah, maybe.
Captain Brien: Right? But out in L.A. it’s so competitive they’re paying to be in open mics.
Jamie Kennedy: Yes.
Captain Brien: You’re kidding me.
Jamie Kennedy: No.
Captain Brien: That’s like shelf space at like a liquor store. They’re like, oh, you want to be on my shelf, you gotta pay me to sell your product.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah, man. I mean, listen, I’m fortunate. I mean I’m doing what I–
Captain Brien: Well, of course–
Jamie Kennedy: But I’ve never… When I was coming up you never had to do that.
Captain Brien: Right.
Jamie Kennedy: It was open mics at coffee houses and you’d sign up and sometimes you wouldn’t get picked but you wouldn’t have to pay. You know. And then if you started, got one laugh or two laughs a set, then people started noticing you and you go okay come back and–
Captain Brien: You’d always be on the roster for that open mic.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. Like I–
Captain Brien: Who’s the guy that’s running the racket that you have to pay? That’s awesome.
Jamie Kennedy: Dude.
Captain Brien: That’s a great–
Jamie Kennedy:just gave you an idea. I just gave you an idea.
Captain Brien: You want to buy six days time start paying the piper. Captain’s ready. Right here. Put it on there!
Jamie Kennedy: I don’t know because you have to have a real crowd and you can’t just pay for an open mic, no offense to the people doing it, and then have all comedians. You have to have real people, in my opinion.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: That’s my opinion. But, like, that’s what it was. The open mic, when I was doing it, was mostly comedians with some real people and I would sign up every day. We’d get picked like three to four times and I would clean up the club and whatever just to get that stage time. And that’s how I started. Then once I did that, and I was like… The guy was like, okay, you know I was young and you can just show your diligence and that’s how I did it. Then he like… Each day, if you got a joke to work and a teeny bit better and that’s how you build.
Captain Brien: That’s so interesting, because we’re like in a comedy vortex in Florida. The open micers think that, like, they can just get on stage anywhere, any time for any reason. Whether they stink it up or not. Like, they just keep having ability to get on stage. It’s… But we produce a lot of good comics in Florida, right?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. Obviously.
Captain Brien: Yeah. And then you go out to L.A. and New York and it’s competitive as hell, right?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. It is. It’s… Yeah, well, it’s the mecca. L.A. might be the hottest place in the world for comedy. I think it is right now.
Captain Brien: I think it is.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: I think it is.
Jamie Kennedy: But it’s… Look, I mean, you know, comedy is it’s own journey. You can start here and get good here and move then–
Captain Brien: How did you get the show, The Jamie Kennedy Experience? Which by the way, as a kid, was one of my favs. I mean, I loved it. Absolutely loved it.
Jamie Kennedy: As a kid?
Captain Brien: Well, I mean, no just coming up. Like, you know, MTV and everything else. It’s just Jamie Kennedy was the jam. That was so dope. How did that come about?
Jamie Kennedy: I did Scream and then I got, you know, I did Scream 2 and I got hot off of that. And then, you know my agents were like, you should do TV and I was like, oh, okay, well, I’m doing movies. And they were like, you can do TV and they knew I had another side to me. So, I always had this idea to do some kind of sketch show–
Captain Brien: So, was that your idea?
Jamie Kennedy: Partially. It was partially my idea to do sketches and characters that the producers of MADD TV got involved and we thought of like how to do it with a hidden camera angle and so it was like hidden camera meets SNL. So, it was like us doing live sketches with real people watching and not knowing. And we developed it for a while then boom, it was like an underground cult–
Captain Brien: Yeah, it was like a hit.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. So, I was lucky but I–
Captain Brien: Was Scream the one that launched you or was it that, that really…? I mean people had to recognize you from Scream but then when you said the Jamie Kennedy Experience, I think that’s what–
Jamie Kennedy: Well, that’s–
Captain Brien: What really must have put you on the map, right?
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. Scream did, is like, oh, your Randy, Jamie Kennedy. Oh, your Jamie Kennedy, because that was my show–
Captain Brien: Right.
Jamie Kennedy: With my name on it. Yeah. But that was the one that really, Jamie Kennedy every week on TV.
Captain Brien: Right, exactly. That’s when the big checks started rolling in.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. I said, I tell anyone who’s on TV put your name in the title.
Captain Brien: Of course.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. It helps.
Captain Brien: Executive producer.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. I mean. Jamie Kennedy.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: That’s so–
Captain Brien: I put my name on everything.
Jamie Kennedy: Captain Brien’s Barrel-Aged Rum.
Captain Brien: Yeah, dude.
Jamie Kennedy: No.
Captain Brien: Vodka, barrel-aged rum, I do it all.
Jamie Kennedy: Barreling, rum.
Captain Brien: Yeah. Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: But not bourbon.
Captain Brien: No. It’s barrel-aged rum. I switched it up, dude.
Jamie Kennedy: Alright, man.
Captain Brien: Everyone wants to be crafty, so I do the little hand crafted cocktail right in the rum, baby.
Jamie Kennedy: I love it. The burnt, the burnt taste.
Captain Brien: What, do you have sun? These windows are illegally tinted and the sun is still coming through.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah. It’s pretty strong.
Captain Brien: Yeah. You can put this like this. The lighting guy, right now is struggling.
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: I got to talk to these camera guys, I tell you. They should be doing more.
Jamie Kennedy: Captain’s Log.
Captain Brien: Alright guys, so listen, you know my guest Jamie Kennedy from Scream, from the Jamie Kennedy Experience, from everything under the sun. Let’s face it. This dude’s a superstar and we are… Look it, a lot of people are watching right now.
Jamie Kennedy: Are we doing good?
Captain Brien: Yeah. A lot of people are watching.
Jamie Kennedy: How high is it? 114 people.
Captain Brien: Yeah. They like you.
Jamie Kennedy: Living the dream.
Captain Brien: We can’t go off now. We have to stay live because so many people started watching.
Jamie Kennedy: Wow. Is this a good number?
Captain Brien: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: Alright.
Captain Brien: They’re jumping. I have a feeling–
Jamie Kennedy: Do they have questions?
Captain Brien: Ask me a question and we will tell you who’s on right now.
Jamie Kennedy: That a kid? That a question?
Captain Brien: So–
Jamie Kennedy: This is a kid.
Captain Brien:So, back in the day, back in the day, did you really think that you were gonna be famous or did you just all of a sudden want to be a comedian because you got that little bug when you went on stage at the open mic?
Captain Brien: Why’d you go to L.A.? I mean you moved out to L.A., right? Because you wanted to be a movie star.
Jamie Kennedy: I wanted to be famous.
Captain Brien: But why’d you know, why’d you want to be famous? Like a movie star? How did you know that? Were you in like dramas as a kid? How did you know?
Jamie Kennedy: No, I mean, I’ll be honest with you. I’ll be real with you. It’s like there was obviously something lacking inside of me that wanted attention.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: And I was always doing like voices and either people thought I was really funny or really weird. And I could never have a regular job because I always get fired.
Captain Brien: How many jobs did you get fired from?
Jamie Kennedy: 36. I have–
Captain Brien: 36.
Jamie Kennedy: I have a journal of it.
Captain Brien: No way.
Jamie Kennedy: From Red Lobster to Domino’s, I got fired from most of them. Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: Besides–
Captain Brien: Red Lobster, they wish they kept you man.
Jamie Kennedy: I know.
Captain Brien: Can you imagine the promos you could have shot for those suckers?
Jamie Kennedy: Cheddar bay, baby.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: Um, but I was always like, I always felt like I could tell the boss more what to do and I hated people did the–
Captain Brien: That works well.
Jamie Kennedy: I know. I didn’t feel like they understood what they were doing.
Captain Brien: Yeah. They didn’t know how to run their own business.
Jamie Kennedy: Uh-uh.
Captain Brien: You knew–
Jamie Kennedy: Well, I just knew–
Captain Brien: As an eighteen year old server.
Jamie Kennedy: how to be efficient. Seventeen. I was, I was a busboy.
Captain Brien: That’s awesome. That’s awesome.
Jamie Kennedy: But, you know. I mean, and then you start, you know. I don’t know. Then once you try it boom! Then I got a little encouragement, even though when I bombed, somebody would go, yo, you’re funny. Even though you bombed. And I was like delusional enough that I was like huh–
Captain Brien: Oh, that’s great. Yeah. And, but no, were you one of those guys who came off stage and thought you crushed it or were you like… How ’bout that? How does that work?
Jamie Kennedy: I try not to be that person but I know–
Captain Brien: Dude, I killed it tonight. I’m like, yeah, I herd six laughs. How does that…? How do you in your mind think?
Jamie Kennedy: That’s real. Actually, I’m the opposite. I think I… Well, no.
Captain Brien: You do… I know now. No, now you’re on a this like, how’d I do? And I’m like the place was dying laughing. What do you mean how’d you do?
Jamie Kennedy: I feel that, um, no, there’s people that there just comedians that bomb years, you know and the kill years and all of that. But I feel that I was a person that would feel when I got a laugh. I was like, ooh that was a tough set but that one area was good, right?
Captain Brien: Yeah. Yeah.
Jamie Kennedy: But, no. I try to keep it kind of semi-honest opinion about myself. But, yeah, you’re right, I probably have been delusional at times.
Captain Brien: Really?
Jamie Kennedy: That I’ve done better than I thought I did.
Captain Brien: I like when I make a post and I’m like, this one’s gonna get so many likes and then it’s like dead. And I’m like, damn that sucks!
Jamie Kennedy: Yeah.
Captain Brien: How ’bout that, dude? That’s like a perfect judge right, everyone online, on Instagram, on Facebook, now. If you get a lot of likes then you’re freaking… Oh, I think my buddy Josh Pray, who by the way is dope. You need to meet Josh. Superstar on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. He must have shared it because that’s why so many people jumped on.
Jamie Kennedy: Alright.
Captain Brien: I’m guessing. Josh, what’s up, buddy?
Jamie Kennedy: Hey, buddy.
Captain Brien: I can’t see the comments right now for some reason. But anyway, this is The Captain’s Log. I have Jamie Kennedy as my guest. Love you guys watching. Check it out. You can follow Jamie Kennedy. One more time how–?
Jamie Kennedy: TheJamieKennedy on Instagram. JamieKennedy on Twitter. Facebook is BlueCheck. You know. Jamie Kennedy.
Captain Brien: You got to follow him guys. Check me out at any time. You can hear The Captain’s Log podcast. I shoot it every day. Give me a like. If you want to follow me, I would love that. But in the mean time, we’re going right now. Jamie Kennedy will be at Off the Hook Comedy Club this weekend Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Get tickets. Www.Offthehookcomedy.com. We out. I’ll be back tomorrow. Love you the most.