"[Music] I was just breaking down mentally of like what have I done? I have I don't know what else to do with my life. And I think I wrote a letter to my best friend like I'm losing it, dude. What did ..."

"much. Jimmy, what do I need to know about you to understand the man that you are? And when I ask that question, I'm specifically trying to understand your earliest context because you're in many respe..."

"of that behavior? I think wanting to do good in like I don't know at at uh sports maybe or you know in grade school or or I I remember I was an alter boy you know. So I I I was uh at one point at one ..."

"strict. Yeah. Very Catholic, very strict. No cursing, no sex, you know, very Catholic, you know, no no dirty words no my I would listen to comedy albums you know, and my dad would take a key and scrat..."

"mom. Yeah. Uh, sadly passed away. Uh miss my mom. My mom's name is Gloria. My sister names is Gloria. My dad's name is Jim. And I'm named Jim. very unoriginal parents. Couldn't come up with any other ..."

"that. Of both your parents, who are you trying to please the most, do you think? Who are you who are you waiting for the well done from the most? God, and that's a great question. I would say probably..."

"Say it crazy. Crazy mental. Yeah. Crazy about it. You know, I never and I still to this day I don't care about money. I never cared about money. I never did anything for I don't I I just don't do it. ..."

"improv. I go in, it's a big deal. And I'm brand new, uh, probably out in LA maybe six months or something. And I worked my way. You have to do any week night, anytime they call, you have to be up ther..."

"Were you a confident young man? So if I zoom back to when you were 12 and you were a class clown in 1986, were you a confident man? What was going on in your head? I think I was pretty confident. I wa..."

"Tonight Show. When you look back at how at that age you were aiming, you know as a young man to be on SNL, which is exceedingly rare but you also went on to, you know replace David Letterman on the th..."

"your parents saying at this time? Because if you're if one's kid says "I'm going to go out to LA to do comedy and improv and these kinds of things." Your dad was a a career man. He was working at IBM,..."

"you ever give up on yourself or did you ever doubt yourself while you were out in LA? Yeah, definitely a bunch of times. It's tough when you're just not getting the the it's not working and you want t..."

"with you because a lot of upcoming football players would be happy to play for any Premier League team. Man United is, you know, of course great, but they would aim for any Premier League team ways. Y..."

"was your mental health like in that period when you're in LA? Because you're dealing with constant rejection. You're you're running out of money. You're contending with having to go home. It wasn't th..."

"Jimmy might go back to that Jimmy and say to him at that time if you could to a message that maybe he needed to hear that he wasn't hearing? Maybe advice or Yeah. I mean of course, the advice would be..."

"a reality where you didn't end up getting on to SNL at some point? So, if we were sat here now, you're 50 years old and you're sat here and you'd never done it. I would have done it. But so this is wh..."

"from that kid who's writing the letter to his friend saying that he's considering giving up and seeking out therapy and those kinds of things? How did you get from that moment to that first Saturday N..."

"So I heard you had said um that if you didn't make it on SNL before the age of 25, you were going to I was going to kill myself. Were you actually? Yeah, I wrote that in something in some journal or s..."

"first business at 12 years old and then I started more businesses at 14, 15, 16 17 and 18. And at that time, what I didn't realize is that being a founder with no money meant that I also had to be the..."

"to feel good. And I was like, and I just felt like, okay, if they're saying it, I feel good. Then you didn't hear I didn't hear back for a couple weeks or whatever. It's like it's crazy how long you w..."

"anticlimax? No. Because if you aim at that one goal and put it on a pedestal for that long in your life, no. It paid off. It was ex everything was what I dreamt. It was crazy. Everything. Uh the the a..."

"Getting rejection, you know, getting your sketches cut, being told you're not funny, you know, haters. This is before Twitter and all that stuff, which is a different ball game that I wasn't ready for..."

"stardom being thrust into public spotlight? You're getting feedback from everywhere. You're getting the good, the bad, the ugly. You're someone that wants to please. Do you Did you seek any profession..."

"top, the richest of the rich, the most famous of the famous. I'm interested, you know, in people, whoever it may be, whether it's Bruce Springsteen or, you know, Angelina Jolie or something, you know,..."

"old? And I say this because I um obviously have been doing this podcast now, really for about four years. That's really that I consider the starting point when we started on YouTube. And I wonder what..."

"how do you keep yourself challenged? Uh, is there something that you're doing to to push yourself? because you know we expand around the world. We go to different places. We have increasingly more int..."

"I have an idea for a kids book that I think could be funny, you know? Yeah data was the first one that was a big deal. It's really the same word on every page. It's just getting your kid to say dada. ..."

"In November 2017 when she passed away you said as a tribute on the Tonight Show, which I watched, the best audience, referring to your mother that she was the best audience. She was the one I was alwa..."

"You know when you say that you miss her you've said that a few times. What what precisely is it that you miss? She had a great sense of humor and she was always, you know, and I think there's so many ..."

"grieve? Were you able to grieve? Yes, I went for it. My wife was really helpful with that. She was like, go for it. just you just cry and just grieve because eventually you actually just have to stop ..."

"perspective on your own work? Cuz it's funny. I I remember thinking about my old business when it was like the it was my entire life. I was thinking if I lost this person in my life now. I don't know ..."

"for longevity and health because we talked just before we started recording and I asked you what's sort of front of mind for you at the moment and one of the things you mentioned was longevity and hea..."

"Is there a next chapter in your mind that you're looking at already? Are you thinking about life beyond TV? Media is changing so much. I mean, you were one of the sort of real pioneers that rode the s..."

"it's it's just in it it it's moving this way and that way, but I still feel like eventually there's a screen in your house or wherever you're living that you're going to want to see things on. You kno..."

"busy. I was reading through your business portfolio and it's extremely extensive. You founded a production company. Oh, yeah. Producing several shows, series, films. You made a comedy a series of come..."

"great. It's a lot. It's great. Um, but the one thing I didn't think I would happen to me is I like other kids more. I I actually appreciate other kids and they go, "Hey, are you not sharing with that ..."

"successful. How are you misunderstood? Because we're all misunderstood in some way, you know? Maybe someone that laughs at everything. I don't really laugh at everything. I do have a good time, but I ..."

"your gravestone say, Jimmy? If you could write it yourself I would say he had a good time. That's not bad. I like that. Jimmy, thank thank you for doing what you do. Um, it's uh it's so unbelievably a..."

"closing tradition. Oh. Where the last guests leaves a question for the next guest not knowing who they're leaving it for. and we'll ask you to do the same. The question left for you is an interesting ..."