#36 Dave Landau is The King of Detroit

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without further ado, I want to now share my conversation with you that I had with the hilarious David Landau. All right, excited for my next guest. You've seen him on Comedy Central last Comic Standing star the king of Detroit hosts of the Anthony Cumia Show with David Landau. Ladies gentlemen, my friend Dave Landau, how are you, sir?

Dave Landau 6:34

Good. How about you, man?

Jeff Dwoskin 6:35

I'm doing good. It's good to see you. It's been a little bit.

Dave Landau 6:38

Yes, it's been? Well, at least a year, probably.

Jeff Dwoskin 6:42

At least a year. Dave Landau is right now the reigning co host of the Anthony ku Mia show, which is now the Anthony Kumi show with Dave Landau. Yes. That's it's so exciting. Because I see you. You just interviewed the guy from Run DMC? Yes. Like even rubbing elbows with some pretty cool people. How did they have the whole Anthony ku Mia, cuz you're from Detroit. That's where is that it? That's out in New York, York. So

Dave Landau 7:11

yeah, I live I have an apartment in New York. And I have my home in Detroit. So it's an interesting lifestyle right now, especially during COVID. But I started coming in, I was a fan of Opie and Anthony years ago. And Bob Phillips Actually, he was a mutual friend of ours thought that I would be a good fit for the show. So he recommended me to the Booker alley at the time. And she really liked me. And she invited me in and Anthony. And I just sort of hit it off. And just in the fact that we both like like offensive comedy and like making jokes and our politics aren't the same, but we'll just make fun of anything and everything. So we had that going for us. And then we had for a little while Artie Lange came in and it was the rd and Anthony show. And Artie was having some trouble coming in every day on time and getting there so he needed somebody to kind of be a third Mike and both Artie and Anthony decided it should be me which was really kind of crazy. And I got offered the job. I assumed it wouldn't last very long. But I would just move to New York rent an apartment and now I've been here for two years. So I just got lucky. I got a lucky little break. It's it's a pretty cool thing to be able to do radio every day.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:20

I talked to Bob Philips all the time. He's got a dartboard with your picture on it. He's like, and he just drinks it says it should have been mine. It should have been mine.

Dave Landau 8:28

Yeah, he's really bitter about it. So better. He just sends me dick pics.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:33

He's the worst.

Dave Landau 8:34

Yeah, angry angry man.

Jeff Dwoskin 8:38

A lot of people would have been Bob is thankfully one of the nicest people but I could see a lot of people would have been Oh man.

Dave Landau 8:45

Oh, it's it's a dream come true. But it's like anything else. It's a job and you attract people and it's how can I word it? Everything that looks amazing has its pratfalls. So I love it. I love being able to do it. But everything that comics always think they want, then you get it and you go Okay, well, what next? Where do I go? There's really no end game to any of this.

Jeff Dwoskin 9:07

It's pretty exciting. It's just fun that you got such a big thing. How are you handling the whole Detroit you got your kid you got you know, you and your family here. You know, I? How are you balancing it all?

Dave Landau 9:19

My son is in a private school, which is good. We just make it work. I mean, it's really no different than being on the road. So you just leave for a few days, then you come home for a few days, they come out to where I'm at. We make it work. We've always made it work. And my son I talked to every single night and every time I'm home, it's 100% about him. So we just play games, make videos, watch movies, go to miniature golf, whatever it is, you know, I almost feel like sometimes I'm like the divorced dad who's trying to win over my son every single week. But he he loves me and he's used to it. You know since the day he was born I traveled so he's just completely used to it with Which is good. He loves what I do. He's fascinated by it and I hope he never does it. I hope he does something with his lessons are more enjoyable, but I sound bitter. I'm really not.

Jeff Dwoskin 10:11

Nobody can see Dave smiling when he's saying I am smiling. So you sort of invented a new father type, right? You've invented the divorce father that's not divorced. Yes. Right. So it is like that must be that must be awesome for your kid. So

Dave Landau 10:27

great. Yeah. loves it. It's really cool. Because it's a it's just a different way to be raised. He gets to go on the road, he gets to travel he gets to see a lot of places and then at the same time, he's very grounded gets to be home gets to you know, I get to be a dad and there's nothing in the world that's more important to me than that.

Jeff Dwoskin 10:45

It's amazing. It my kids were much. Well, I know I shouldn't say when I started. I had one. Oh, wait, my brain is completely right. Yes.

Dave Landau 10:53

And when we met your kids were little are not born yet.

Jeff Dwoskin 10:55

Well, yeah, yeah, you because I just had this I have this problem with timeframes. And honestly, in my head, it didn't compute in my head how long I had been doing comedy. It just didn't make sense. In my head. I've been doing comedy for 18 years. I went to see my kid I must have been only anyway, so yeah, right. So when I first did comedy, my second child was born like a month later. So I had one that was two already. So it was funny when they were older. And by older, you know, like 1617. And then all their friends were on YouTube and stuff. And they would see the clips that I put on, and they'd all be huddled in and we're like we're watching. So vnm is dead on YouTube. And then they would do the jokes. And then my youngest one pretend that you didn't see it, but my oldest would pretend she didn't see it. And like it was just funny. It was just it was a little weird, cuz my kids were never old enough. And then the funny thing is when my kid was finally old enough to actually come to the club, I think 18 you can get into one of the club. Yeah, yeah, you shouldn't want to go.

Dave Landau 12:02

Yeah, it's gotta be so different to when your dad's a comic where you're not looking up to it. We also grew up in a different way where you had only however many channels and the fame was something that was actually attainable. And you knew comics were and totally different worlds. And now, yeah, I am terrified of the fact that my son is going to just look on YouTube one day and be like, so I was watching your video about you being arrested. And I was watching this, I thought, you know, I'm very open about my life. And there's so much stuff and so much content on YouTube that I'm not going to be able to hide much from him.

Jeff Dwoskin 12:37

No, but he will be able to one day grow up and see you get a kiss from Pamela Anderson. So that's pretty that's

Dave Landau 12:42

very, yes, very true. It's how I got the Hep C. But I will say that was a career highlight. There is that moment where you're like, wow, that just happened. She was looking

Jeff Dwoskin 12:55

good. I'd let I've always been a fan of Pamela Anderson.

Dave Landau 13:00

Yes, she very pretty. I remember my dad caught us looking at her playboy in the back of his van when we were all playing Little League Baseball. So he opens up the back hatch of his Pontiac transport. And there's five of my friends circled around looking at a playboy and he just looks at and goes She's pretty. And so I said, this, let us keep it

Jeff Dwoskin 13:20

anyway your dad is a good guy. So there we go. He was like,

Dave Landau 13:23

Look, I'm not gonna I can't tell you, you're wrong. So it's just very pretty. It's funny because people will ask like, Oh, she's really good looking. You shouldn't be Come on. She's older. It's like, dude, she's a super she's an actual supermodel. Like, I don't think she'll ever be unattractive. No, she's

Jeff Dwoskin 13:39

odd. You know, I think I think people think she's not intelligent. But I mean, she's, she isn't, I didn't I don't get the impression just from like, all the stuff she's done with all the TV shows that she's LED. I mean, like, she's, I think she knows what she's doing. She just, yeah, I

Dave Landau 13:54

don't think you'd become that successful without a little bit of intelligence. And she also, Jimmy failla, who's a friend of mine wrote her stand up for that show, and she kind of knocked it out of the park to be honest. I mean, she hit every punch line and the crowd loved her. You know, it wasn't she didn't turn it into a career. She was just doing it for the night and she did it very well. It's too bad because her and screech they could have toured that what was the guy's name from family ties? Oh, Skippy the guys up he's still touring. Yeah, there's a lot of great acts out there. I was just talking about that Jeremy, heaven got me tattooed, and he became a stand up. It's the only profession where you can be an awful human being in there like it's alright. You can still do stand up comedy. It's fine that you killed six people in a drunk driving accident. Have you tried stand up comedy? People would like to take a picture with you. Right? So sad. Kramer

Jeff Dwoskin 14:53

with the house isn't michael Richards Right. Right. He really he like he kind of he when he came out with the N word. Got that Monday. There was nothing ever worse that you could do than that. So you kind of set the bar so high that it's like anyone else can just slip under.

Dave Landau 15:07

You really can Limbo under this. I met him just before that. Oh, yeah, I did he's a terrible human being. really an awful person. Yes. We were at the comedy magic club and he was extraordinarily rude. He was doing push ups. And I went up to him and I was hosting and I said, Hey, can I get your intro? And he stands up and I don't know if you're allowed to swear on this. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, okay. So he's, I go over and I go, Hey, I just want to get your intro. He goes, What? He goes, don't you see that? I'm busy. I said, Yeah, I see you are but I just you're going on next. And Larry David was on stage like Kevin nealon. There, Don Irerra. It's, it's a club in Los Angeles. It's filled with heavy hitters. I'm not that impressed that you're Michael Richards. So I'm like, I know. I just need your intro for the show. I don't want to bother you. And he goes, Okay. And he stands up and I go to shake his hand. He goes, Yeah, I don't do that. I go, okay. I go. So what would you like your intro to be? He goes, What the fuck do you think I want my intro to be as like Seinfeld. And he goes, so what I'm a washed up. I don't have anything else going on. And I go, trial and error because I just started getting pissed. And he's like, he's like, yeah, just say Seinfeld. Like, they'll know who I am. And I was like, okay, because here's the deal. Don't shake my hand, who's you go up on that stage, and you bring me up and you get off that stage do not stand up their way. Do not stand up there and shake my hand. You bring me up and you get off. Do you understand? And I was like, Yeah, I understand. Which sucks because I love Seinfeld. So I get so I go up on stage and I just tell the best jokes I had. Crowd loves me. And then I say Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Michael Richards. You know, Kramer, please welcome Michael Richards. They go crazy. I stood up on stage with his shit eating grin in my hand out so he had to shake it in front of the audience. He then he carried a glass onstage with a cocktail sword, and was pretending to fight ghosts with a cocktail. So I've never seen an audience go from so excited to hating a man faster ever in my life. It was. I'm telling you it wasn't even that like 30 seconds of fame. They say you get it was like nine seconds after they stopped clapping that they hated this man. He gets off the stage. I run up to shake his hand again. But he won't do it. But he Pat's, me on the back. He leaves. I'm like, What an asshole. That guy was not kidding. Couple weeks later, I turn on TV. And there's michael richards at the Laugh Factory, just screaming the N word and I couldn't have been happier to just watch his career dive.

Jeff Dwoskin 17:48

Good Things only happen to good people, right?

Dave Landau 17:51

I love Jeff Garlin story about that, too, where he walks off stage and he's like, tough crowd tonight. It's like Do you know what you've done? It's it's

Jeff Dwoskin 17:59

hard when you meet your heroes. And they don't they don't kind of live up to it.

Dave Landau 18:03

Oh, it is and I I didn't watch Seinfeld for

Jeff Dwoskin 18:06

not to deal with your hero. But you know,

Dave Landau 18:08

he was up there. I mean, you watch any of those shows. I met Jerry at Gotham and he was exactly what I thought Jerry Seinfeld would be so wasn't so it was just Oh, hi. Yeah, nice to meet, you know, just sort of exactly what I thought it would be nice. Cool. Yeah. It was nice.

Jeff Dwoskin 18:25

When I open for Gilbert godfried. We sat in the back. And he was cool. It was right after he got fired from Aflac. He was cool. He would ask me any question. I asked to answer any question I asked him, but then he never asked me any questions back. It wasn't it wasn't like, hey, what was your career? Hi. And I mean, it was even then he because yes, he was not gonna ask me that. It was just like family stuff. And movie was you know, just jibber jabber and I'm like, okay, at the end. He's like, be a pitch my book, Mike. Yes. I yeah.

Dave Landau 18:57

We've had him on the show. He's hilarious. But off screen is different. Or offstage.

Jeff Dwoskin 19:02

It's completely different. Oh, yeah. On stage. He's like, he's Gilbert. godfried. And then yeah, offstage. He's very quiet, very reserved.

Dave Landau 19:10

And then the second he turns that on, it's dark, and hilarious. And it's pretty crazy how he flips that switch.

Jeff Dwoskin 19:16

Yeah, I really wanted him to do this. One joke that I had heard I thought was the funniest joke of his bring it out. So maybe he would do it and say, Hey, can I own and I don't know. Don't do that joke. Guys. Stick with the Ironside material. Gilbert Godfrey was the first time I opened for someone who was like super famous and like they were there to see him. You know, sometimes we're like we do when we were at some of the clubs, right? They're just there to see comedy.

Dave Landau 19:44

Yeah. Is that fair? Especially when we were coming up?

Jeff Dwoskin 19:47

Yeah. And so this was like the first time it was in the magic bag and the magic bag. They that start time weird. It's like door opens and people think that's when it starts. So they're there at seven and the show doesn't start till 10 rather Like every time there's a lull in the music, they start clapping. And then finally, when they do start the show, I'm the guy that comes out.

Dave Landau 20:07

They hate you. You gotta win him over immediately.

They're just like, exactly. He's like,

yeah, that is a terrifying any of those theaters. When you do that. You're like, Alright, I'm gonna walk out and it's just disappointment. And then they like, I mean, you did well, I'm sure. But that first couple seconds when you see their faces, like,

Jeff Dwoskin 20:26

they're like, wait. Gilbert Godfrey, this is the wrong juice. We got no wrong. That's you up here right now, though it is. They have swapped Jews on us. You can just pay to see one Jew and then put out any old Jew, they think

Dave Landau 20:42

we don't know.

I'm sure half his fans were too. Oh, that's right area. It had to be a lot of Jewish fans in Detroit. I'm sure I'm sure. Well, speaking

Jeff Dwoskin 20:54

of crazy gigs, so we've worked together a few times. And anytime someone asked me, have you worked with Dave, I say yes, I've always I've worked with Dave a few times, always at the shittiest possible place. I've never worked with Dave at a decent club. It's always been like, it's just some weird bar or just something. And it's like, maybe one day. I mean, they've always been fine. But they're just not not those cushy. Because not cushy mark, release.

Dave Landau 21:21

No, you and I did. I remember one room. We were waiting for families to finish eating dinner, basically sitting at a booth. And there were so few people there for the show. There's like five people. So they were like, we're just going to let these families eat dinner. And then you guys can go up on stage. And I think they still had you go up, even while like a family was there with a child like a three year old child at the table? Who I think they stayed oddly enough, if I remember correctly for the whole show. But yeah, I remember that was just it was like a restaurant that had no business doing comedy. And it was just thrown at the audience and they were begging people to stay.

Jeff Dwoskin 22:01

Was this the restaurant where you had to walk up the big of the big fighter wood stairs? I think so. Because I remember what I remember most about that. So this flight of stairs was let's say for me it was it was to a second level. So that's how it was. That's how how long these stairs were. A guy walks out so drunk. I don't know if you were there for exactly this. But he was so drunk and literally fell. Head over heels when I say head over heels. I'm like picture any movie where a guy falls and they have a professional stunt man falling literally head over heels. This is 30 feet of stairs, people 30 feet of stairs, head over heels. This guy is so drunk. Like as I'm watching it happen. I am convinced I am watching a man die. Right? I mean, that's, there's just no way. How do you survive this? I mean, it's like, he gets up and gets a newest car and drives away. And they have to call the police to come get the guy. That's

Dave Landau 22:57

no I was there. Yeah. Yeah. It's so strange by the number of people I've seen fall down drunk at a comedy club. For some reason forgot that. But yes, because it was. There wasn't even a lot of people.

Jeff Dwoskin 23:10

No, it was empty. And

Dave Landau 23:11

then I remember you had to go up and address what had happened. Yes.

Jeff Dwoskin 23:15

It was like one big table of people or something.

Dave Landau 23:18

I think it was you addressing it that got them to even react because you were like he's just leaving. Is that? Yes. fire me. Yeah, I remember.

Jeff Dwoskin 23:28

I mean, it was just yeah, it was it was the most surreal thing. I still compared it to this day, you know, certain things, they just stick in your head. That was just that was just one of them. It was just like, I just can't even believe I'm witnessing. And I can't believe he's alive. It gets up like

Dave Landau 23:45

so drunk that even if something shattered, he's not gonna know until he gets home.

Jeff Dwoskin 23:49

Oh my god. It's crazy.

Dave Landau 23:51

I forgot about that buddy to watch the show. And it was one of those. You're like, I hope he just pays us and cancels. Yeah, exactly. It's a lot of the gigs You and I have done together where you hope they just hand you money and say there's no show.

Jeff Dwoskin 24:04

Right? But they want to do it so they can tell their friends. They had a comedy show at their place.

Dave Landau 24:09

So you're like, Alright, let's go up and eat if,

Jeff Dwoskin 24:12

right. There's no there's no story to it. We had david Landau in our lobby. There's nothing nobody's impressed by that.

Dave Landau 24:18

Oh, they're not. There was a family that was eating we. We just threw the show with them. Yes. Regardless of language. It was great.

Jeff Dwoskin 24:29

And then I remember like some time ago, there was this place in Royal Oak. It was a big the whole opening was all glass. Oh, and they just handed us that mic. And it was just like, again, it was one table of people there.

Dave Landau 24:42

Oh, that was over 10 years ago. I was hammered. I that was o'tooles.

Jeff Dwoskin 24:46

Yeah. O'tooles. Yes,

Dave Landau 24:47

yes. And you and I asked Mark if we could do it and Sunday and he's like, Yeah, go ahead. It's fine. You're right. And boy, did I regret saying yes.

Jeff Dwoskin 24:57

Yeah. One time really What is saved as he doesn't have to do a gig in his backyard?

Dave Landau 25:05

I think he must have just known he was like, Oh, please,

Jeff Dwoskin 25:08

please help me. And he's thinking they're never gonna ask again.

Dave Landau 25:12

He was right. Oh, there was no stage middle of I remember a friend of mine was there. And he's like, Hey, listen, I'm a cop. Now. Don't say anything about me being a cop. And I was like, Okay, and then I was hammered, and at least 10 minutes was about how he was a cop while pointing at him.

Jeff Dwoskin 25:32

It's just too funny.

Dave Landau 25:33

Yeah, it's just so wasted that I remember that night though. That was a terrible gig. And I think it lasted another couple months where I just didn't understand how

Jeff Dwoskin 25:42

it was the worst. We have done a whole tour of bad gigs. The memories, but you know, those are the ones he had. Those are the ones you remember. Oddly enough, some of the good ones you're like, yeah, like what was that? Was that? No, no.

Dave Landau 25:56

Yeah, it always went. I always just remember the good gigs, when we were coming up is like the Joey's open mics, you know, and just having fun on Tuesdays. And Wednesdays, that was always very cool.

Jeff Dwoskin 26:07

Yeah. When we were coming up, it was great. There were so many open mics. I remember like never being home. It was like you just open mic, open mic, open mic. Those were the days and then as they slowly all went out of business, back then to though Ridley would book us. You'd get like a Tuesday or a Thursday or a Friday wasn't the whole weekend. Right. And so you had the opportunity very early on to just do a Thursday. So you'd be working with headliners almost immediately wasn't later till he would book an entire weekend. And then it was cool. I had so back to Pam Anderson. So that was your that was your third visit to live at Gotham for fourth? No, not according to YouTube.

Dave Landau 26:49

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, the first one was on Comedy Central. Okay, and then the three on YouTube or on access. Okay, so that was the third of the series. And then I did one for Oculus. So I did five altogether. But that was the third one for a access. Gotcha. Which was Mark Cuban's network. I don't think it's still around, but it was for a while.

Jeff Dwoskin 27:11

Got it. So what were the restraints on that? Because ever you were swearing and stuff. So there was, was there? None. None.

Dave Landau 27:17

I just wanted to make a mark. The first time I did a very good club set. And the owner pulled me aside and said that was the best that he had seen. And that was an astonishing compliment. And I got invited back and did really well. And then I really pushed for a third because I wanted to tell a story. And he led me, which was amazing. Then I came back and did it for Oculus. But yeah, that was the third one I had done for that show. The other ones Jamie Kennedy was the host of the first one. And john Witherspoon who I loved was and also from Detroit. JOHN Witherspoon was the host of the second one.

Jeff Dwoskin 27:50

Now let's talk about last Comic Standing. Yes. Last Comic Standing. So you did well. But as I'm remembering you, did you have kind of a thing with Roseanne.

Dave Landau 28:01

I did. We now have the same manager. Oddly enough. We Roseanne and I Roseanne loved me the first couple episodes. And then the third round was, I told the joke, and it was about a tampon string. And the reason why I did it was because keenen Ivory Wayans was a hero of mine. And he always used irreverent humor around and living color. And that's what they all said they liked about me. So I wanted to see what I could get away with on national television. And I did it and the crowd loved it. But she starts going, I don't get it and get it. So I started making fun of her for not getting the joke. And that's when she she looked upset. But she just goes You did great. And I turned out, I guess she was kind of upset about it. And the fact that the crowd was cheering me on that I was eliminated from the series at that point. And I was brought out that night to centerstage. It looked like I was going to go through to the final round. They really made it look like I just had to take two steps forward. And it would be my big break. And it wasn't they called up other people. And it was it was soul crushing. I went from being like on a national television show that we were recording in LA universal to in the basement of the Ricardo montalban Theater in LA, talking to a suicide prevention counselor with a woman who was what's the other one so you don't go out and kill anybody?

Jeff Dwoskin 29:34

Oh, do you mean like if there's like the person that wouldn't would get you not to jump off a roof or something?

Dave Landau 29:39

Yes. Well, she was a suicide prevention counselor, but she also didn't want me to murder anyone else.

Jeff Dwoskin 29:45

So it's important. Yes.

Dave Landau 29:48

Which I get it's a liability for NBC to just let you go if you're broken because you are I mean, it's in front of millions of people and even in the theater you're in front of 1000 So it really is a soul crushing moment. But it ended up being good because more people remembered me for that. And I sold out comedy clubs for about three weeks, because that's how long people care about it. But for three weeks, it was pretty exciting.

Jeff Dwoskin 30:19

I remember I tried to get a hold of you and you just were not returning my calls.

Dave Landau 30:22

No, I was Hollywood for three weeks. It's funny one day celebrity. But yeah, it was on last comic and I offended Roseanne, which is an astonishing achievement. And it was because she didn't get a joke. And it was interesting to see her get kicked off of television because we didn't get her joke several years later.

Jeff Dwoskin 30:43

Yes, hers was driven by Ambien. Yours is driven by just two.

Dave Landau 30:48

But yeah, that's it. Yeah, mine was mine was a joke about a tampon string. And me being an ignorant husband, where hers was about a woman having a gorilla face.

Jeff Dwoskin 31:01

On the heels of dressing up as a Hitler and having people cookies and she's got a history of great, great stuff. You can google google Roseanne and whatever nationality you are, and that that that Intel will come on.

Dave Landau 31:17

It's in she tried. She tried to say she was Jewish, or is she?

Jeff Dwoskin 31:21

I think she was doing some Kaaba law thing and talking to a rabbi.

Dave Landau 31:24

Yes. And you're like,

Jeff Dwoskin 31:26

kabbalah it's like a mysticism thing.

Dave Landau 31:28

I just can't believe a publisher looked at that and was like, This is perfect,

Jeff Dwoskin 31:32

since we're just going all in on this. Yeah. She also I think, bumped her buddy Joel from opening for her at the Fox Theater last minute.

Dave Landau 31:42

Yes. Joel and I and Cory discussed that on the drill and Corey radio show.

Jeff Dwoskin 31:48

And then I've heard other things here. I was talking to rocky Laporte and she was like she's on last Comic Standing. Was Rocky your season, or is she just a my season? Yeah. Okay, so yeah, Rocky, she was like, talk faster, like, talk faster. This Rocky?

Dave Landau 32:02

Was she that was the night that he went through. And he was shocked because she decimated him. And it was saying that it was Yeah, talk faster. It's like his whole cadence is this sort of blue collar. It's like Nate Barr godsey and telling him to go could you act like you're smarter in situations? It's like, Well, no, that's his whole thing is that he's on a where you went? It's like telling Steven, right? Like, have you thought about storytelling? And not one liners like well, No,

Jeff Dwoskin 32:33

I wouldn't. exactly exactly. There. Take everything you're doing is working and just don't do that. Yeah.

Dave Landau 32:39

Rocky, like, you know what brings in those five to $10,000 corporate engagements now? Don't do that.

Jeff Dwoskin 32:46

Right. Exactly. Well, I remember watching last Comic Standing, and I remember thinking Damn, yeah, man, you killed it. You really did. And, you know, I've known other people on there. And I don't always feel the same way. You know, it's like, sometimes it's like, you just had to pretend but not for not with Dave Landau. You crushed it. You You deserve it. You deserve that. But you know, everything kind of happens. That was it was a big moment. It's kind of like Jay Cruz and America's Got Talent. He had that big moment where then he got there, roast piers, Piers Morgan and stuff like that. So it's like, it's almost more memorable. And I mean to

Dave Landau 33:19

Oh, yeah, I think definitely for him. I mean, I was very lucky. They opened the whole season on me and Wanda Sykes called and said, Hey, we're gonna air your entire stuff. And that was crazy. Because it was at 9pm on NBC, to kick off the entire season.

Jeff Dwoskin 33:35

And right, you went first?

Dave Landau 33:36

Yeah, man, they and they kicked it off. They kicked off the season with a late night set. I mean, it was a five minute spot in primetime. And that was something because Wanda Sykes and Paige Hurwitz, who produced the show, are genuinely good people in common. And they really were rooting for it to be a competitive series. But you have so many advertisers, so many people above them. I don't think there's a way to really do that on television, and have it be authentic. I don't think there's really a way to do that anywhere without some level of bureaucracy involved with a contest. So you shouldn't expect out of that. You just have to do what you can do with it, which is clip my sets, put them on my webpage and be like there's a thing I did. That's about it,

Jeff Dwoskin 34:19

too. Big thing.

Dave Landau 34:20

Thank you.

Jeff Dwoskin 34:20

Let's talk about the king of Detroit. Yes. Your movie The King of Detroit, which I was at the premiere, whatever. Yes.

Dave Landau 34:31

For your donation as well.

Jeff Dwoskin 34:33

tons of fun. I remember my friend I brought my friend, Tom Raleigh, and he still talks about it. He's still talking about king of Detroit is a movie that you wrote, I believe you can stream it on Amazon Prime now.

Dave Landau 34:45

Yes, it's on prime now. Yep.

Jeff Dwoskin 34:46

And so everyone can go listen to it. I'll put in the show notes to remind everyone but tell us all about this. How did you start writing and who would you write it with? How'd you get how'd you get this independent movie made in 2012.

Dave Landau 34:57

I had gotten a writing job in Los Angeles. This is the long route for it. I got hired on a Friday, the show was canceled after I signed for my apartment. So I was stuck in LA for the lease. But my buddy worked at Fox. And he's now a high up in Marvel, he produces different shows. for them. I was writing scripts, so we'll just write a script, you know, and write some other stuff. Maybe we'll buy it. And I wrote the script with my friend Sebastian and my friend Ken and my friend Jimmy helped as well. And we were kind of just taking all these stories from our life and mashing them together into one night where a kid gets his first car in the 90s goes into the hood to get you know, liquor and drugs and everything right. And then all hell breaks loose, which was very common for the way that I grew up. We wrote it in a probably like two months. And I showed it to my friend at Fox, they offered a little bit of money, but it was pretty much just a shelf. And I didn't want to shelf it. It was something that I really enjoyed. So I raised $7,000, which was it, which I put in at least to have, and that included buying a car and we shot it in 13 days marathon style for $7,000. Just guerilla style, no permits, no anything. And we just filmed that as quickly as we possibly could. It was kind of cool. It was like camp, it was in 2013. And I started selling it as the King. And I sold it for a couple years on the road. And people liked it. And I remember a lot of stoners really liked it. And they would show their friends and I get a lot of nice messages about it. And one day out of nowhere, like two or three years ago, I get a phone call from a movie producer who said, Hey, I saw your movie, I'd really like to put it on Amazon. I'd like to make a deal with them to distribute it. I was like, well, it's already up there as DVDs like no, I want to put it on Amazon Prime like so people actually see it. And I was like, oh, okay, you can try if you want. He's like, No, I have the connections to do it. And he had produced several movies that were kind of be movies. And he's like, we just have to change the name because there was already a few movies called the king. So he changed it to the king of Detroit. It we got distribution, Amazon picked it up, they put it on prime. And it is exactly what I like about comedy is people absolutely love it. And some people absolutely hate it. And that's fine with me. It's exactly what I think humor should be. And for the most part, it's you know, a lot of the people who love it, really love it. And not a week goes by where somebody doesn't put like a clip on Twitter or something and send it to me that they're watching it. It's a really cool thing. Like, I'll just see Robert Jenkins, for example, as a comic wearing a diaper on his head being a homeless guy vomiting on somebody else. And it's sort of you know, this these scenes in the movie that were part of my real life, we just made this thing that was over the top and somewhat accurate and I'm very proud of it.

Jeff Dwoskin 37:52

You've done so many cool things. So many cool things.

Dave Landau 37:55

Thank you, sir.

Jeff Dwoskin 37:56

Oh, wait, I was I was watching one of your clips. And you were wearing with Anthony. I think you're wearing a bad boys hat. Yes, quick connection. My cousin. Uncle is the person who makes that logo. They made it way back when when the pistons were the you know, when it really was a bad boys. Billy Barris. And he knows Yeah, it's his thing. Yeah. And so like, anytime I see it, it's like, it's cuz it's like popular again. That's awesome.

Dave Landau 38:19

It's the greatest logo in the history of sports. Yeah, in my opinion. I had a black basketball with that on it as a kid and I had Rodman and Isaiah Thomas and an autograph poster that my brother has now that my brother and I got at the Palace of Auburn Hills back when they were the bad boys. My dad's company had a suite and we ended up going to one of the games because he would always ask us we want to go to the games and they were like now we want to go to Double Dare live or whatever they had, you know, that was way more for kids. But yeah, we got to meet Isaiah Thomas after he did a say no to drugs speech.

Jeff Dwoskin 38:55

Will you remember like at one point they were really popular. Were these like skeleton shirts where it was like anatomically correct shirt. Yeah, of course. No. Yeah, I

Dave Landau 39:03

remember. Yeah.

Jeff Dwoskin 39:04

The same people made that. And when my my brother and I, we were like, just No, but you know, just little babies, you know, like, you know, 810 and you know, whatever. They like we were models in their catalog. So I think one of us was a cowboy. One of us is an Indian. Not there's not a little is that very PC now. So I will not be releasing the photos. I don't want to be ruined.

Dave Landau 39:31

I have a picture of me wearing a Beretta shirt. Robert Blake who murdered his wife. I have no idea if I ever even watched an episode of Beretta but apparently my parents found a child's Beretta shirts and I'm just wearing it standing in front of a fridge

Jeff Dwoskin 39:47

it my daughter was like that to me with a paint. We were at the mall Hilda with Pink Floyd shirt says Dad, you know dark side of the moon or something like that. He's like, Can I have this I'm like name one song and it's yours.

Dave Landau 40:01

That's a great parents,

Jeff Dwoskin 40:05

great parents, they would have known the songs.

Dave Landau 40:12

I don't know I used to listen to it. So trust me. They start naming off the whole catalog. You're like, are you? Are you alright? Are you using drugs?

Jeff Dwoskin 40:23

Like? Tell me more about just life on Anthony ku Mia with David Landau show like, what's what's that like day to day?

Dave Landau 40:33

It's really great. I mean, he's just, he's one of the funniest human beings a genuinely nice dude. He has a crazy reputation, obviously, and is known for being somewhat of a polarizing character, which is strange when you meet him because I've always known him as being the sort of tough crowd group, the Colin Quinn's. And you know, his best friend is Patrice O'Neal and all that Rep. Bobby Kelly, all these people who I would have never had the opportunity to meet and kind of be around I've been able to because of him and meeting people like Jim Norton meeting people, you know, like Helen Quinn, rich Voss, doing a lot of the New York clubs and getting to know these people is a huge thing that he's done. And honestly, we just click we go in, and it's just talking to my friend for two hours, and trying to make each other laugh at whatever we can come up with. And his whole life is he wakes up at like 2pm changes, comes into work, does two hours of great radio nails, every impression he's ever been asked to do. And then he does all this prep work right before the show, gets back on the train goes home, and then just plays video games until 7am. And that's his life. That's all he does. I lived with him for the entire summer, because we had to do it out of his house. And we didn't want to just lose subscribers and get rid of our show. So we did the entire show from his basement. And I lived in this guest room and a wing of his mansion, which was really cool. And I got to know them on a different level than just the radio guy. And his comes from you know, he's got a great family, his brother, his sister, all kinds of people in his life that are great. His friend, Keith, his girlfriend, Missy, and he's just a good guy to know. And a funny guy and an irreverent guy, and just one of those people who I, he doubles down, but everything is really about comedy. And when you know him, he cares about his friends. And I don't know if I've ever met anyone quicker, funnier in my life. I've seen him. I've seen him take the legs out from under the best comics on Earth. Literally, I've seen him just be better than everybody in the room. I've seen him do 15 minutes of stand up, and then not know that he just did stand up because he just walked out and talk. And I'll just come back and go, Well, that wasn't what you guys do. It's like that's exactly what we do. You just don't realize that you have this ability, because your radio guy and not a stand up. But even him and Norton and this dynamic, it's just cool to be part of something that I would drive around the country and listen to, I never really heard of them before. 2004, maybe 2005. And that's when I got turned down to Opie and Anthony and I listened religiously, when I would go to gigs. And I never in a million years thought that I would be sitting in a room with any of them, let alone the CO hosts of a show of the guy who I loved watching or love listening. So I mean every day is surreal. To be honest, it's every day is is a dream come true in a way, which sounds so weird to say out loud. But show business has gone in so many different directions, there's really no way to just say these are the things that you follow. I think it's about finding your own happiness, and your own quality of work. So this is the thing that I wanted that would make me successful, or at least proud of my time and that I've put in. And I'm lucky enough to have achieved that because he gave me a shot and for all the knows you get. And all the times you're turned down and all the stuff we have to deal with behind the scenes. This is a guy who took a chance on me almost instantaneously and has stood by it ever since and is just, I know how to guide him when he's on the show. I know how to kind of sit back and throw in one liners. I know when to tell a story. It's fun being a co host because I don't have the pressure of it all being on me. I just have to know where to take him or where to where to. I don't want to stay say steer the ship because that's such a negative op thing that people bring up but it's just getting him to do the right impression or getting them to laugh or getting him to just say anything and laugh at them. Sometimes horrible, horrible shed will for example, he'll be bring in somebody who just had their face burned off and they had the first facial surgery ever. Like that'll just be an example of an article. And then he'll come in and I noticed that he looked like droopy dog. So I know that if I start pointing out that looks like droopy dog, he can do a droopy dog impression. And it just turns into hilarious radio of him going they learned Deaf may feats and just doing this insanely insensitive, buddy that just works and already was like that to where you have already there. I mean, one of my favorite moments ever in comedy and on that show, it was already I and Anthony and we're sitting there and for some reason Reginald Denny came up with the guy who was hit with a brick in Compton during or in watts during the riots in the in LA in the 90s. And we started making jokes about what he did for a living now or like he probably coaches ice hockey or his, you know, captain of a swim team, whatever would be not at all related to so he ended up looking at looking him up. And what he did for a living was far funnier than anything we could even think. He was basically like, he taught people how to use paddle boats in like the middle of Alaska. I forgot what it was. But it was something so magical that Anthony and Artie and I were in tears for 20 straight minutes at how this guide has escaped being around to anyone. It's stuff like that. That's so funny. And some of its taboo and some of it's what people would say right leaning, I'm very, I'm very much center. It's just really about having fun and trying to make each other laugh and I'm lucky enough to do it. And I know it was a long explanation, but you can pry trim it into something that sounds better than I could ever explain it. I

Jeff Dwoskin 46:45

think you explained it perfectly from the heart. And if you had one of your dreams come true. I think that's amazing. I think it's a good note to end on. Oh, wait. Oh, wait a second. I just got a text from Bob Phillips. He wants to know if Anthony CuMia ever mentions his name.

Dave Landau 47:01

Well, he called me

Jeff Dwoskin 47:06

I can't thank you enough. It was so good hanging out with you. Dude,

Dave Landau 47:09

I can't thank you enough for having me on. I really appreciate it.

Jeff Dwoskin 47:11

It's a big deal to go from the Anthony Cumia show with Dave Landau to the Jeff Dwoskin show.

Dave Landau 47:16

Well, I enjoy just the same my friend.

Jeff Dwoskin 47:20

Where can everyone keep up with you on those socials?

Dave Landau 47:23

Davelandau.com. @LandauDave on Twitter @Dave.Landau on Instagram I you know all those toxic websites Facebook everywhere where people are arguing you can find me putting up things that are in no way cited. Like today, I just put up a panda video where I'm just shaving in a mirror. A panda mess.

Jeff Dwoskin 47:46

I saw that I was gonna ask you if that was you. It's so stupid. Yeah, so funny. Not funny.

Dave Landau 47:51

It's just nonsense. And I would rather put that up now because everybody wants to fight and I'd rather just throw a monkey wrench in the middle of it and just see what people think. Awesome.

Jeff Dwoskin 48:01

All right, everyone. I'll put all those into the show notes and also put Dave's website. Dave has like a few albums out. You can go get those too if you need more. Dave laying down your life, which I'm saying you do. So that was there you go. Thank you my friend.

Dave Landau 48:14

Thank you, dude. I'll talk to you soon.

Jeff Dwoskin 48:16

Talk soon. All right. How fun was that? Everyone? Check out Dave Landau if he comes to a comedy club in your area. He's super hilarious. Also check out his movie The King of Detroit on amazon prime. And of course, he can listen to him all the time on the Anthony Cumia show with Dave Landau. And you know what time it is now ladies and gentlemen. That's right. It's time for the hashtag trend of the week with hashtag ground up. Oh man, today's is a good one. Hashtag great names for a car. In honor of days movie, the king of Detroit, where the star of the movie gets a car from his father named the king. So here we go. We're gonna dive in to hash tag great names for a car. And remember, you should get the hashtag roundup app play along with the hashtag games in one day. One of your tweets may show up on a future episode of the Jeff Dwoskin show fame and fortune awaits those that tweets that maybe a little dramatic there. Anyway, you know the drill. All these folks will be retweeted at Jeff Dwoskin show on Twitter, follow us there and also retweet these good tweets. Alright, here we go. Hashtag great names for car, the bumper Buster the shaggin wagon the democrat because it only makes left turns the love machine. These are some really hashtag great names for a car. I gotta tell you. Here's why the Karen it's ugly and everyone wants to be around it. Come on, give Karen a break. Hashtag great days for a car, that midlife crisis mobiel the third divorce that paid off that cat mobiel. Now the Alice Cooper, Elvira mistress of innocence. And finally, the last hashtag great news for car. That's all because it smells like gas. All right. Oh, hashtag great names for car. And of course all these gains are brought to you by about tags a weekly game on hashtag Roundup. Thank you for all the fun and I can't believe the fun has come to an end once again. Ah week 36 just flew by. Oh, it was so much fun hanging out with all of you guys. Definitely subscribe to live from Detroit, the Jeff Dwoskin show, tell your friends, sign up for our mailing list. Find me a coffee, play hashtag games, and we'll see you next week.

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