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Will Sasso

lines on the record: 180
first: 2022-09-24
most recent: 2022-09-24
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Put a doodzie sticker on your microphone if that's okay. Oh, yeah. These are tricky because I have the thumbs of Italian sausage thumbs.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't do anything for me. I have an incredible fiance who that's nice to have somebody constant that you love very much and see as the best person and all that good stuff. Hopefully vice versa.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In LA, it's hard to, nobody cares, they see you, and then the next minute they see so-and-so. So it's like, you know, I'm the guy from that Mike and Molly, right? Nope. Nope, close. King of you. Did you shave your head? You go bald. You're king of queens. Nope. It's not me. So close. Wow, shit. You used to be the mountain on Game of Thrones. You look like shit. What happened? Just eating fried That's what's up. Can't lift any weights anymore. I'm at the gym doing like 15 pounds with shoulder press. Ah, and people coming up to me. You used to be a dragon killer dude”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just feel like I'm not, I mean, it's like, I don't know, I've always kind of had a small group of friends and those people don't, you know, it's like I've known the same people for years and years.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You'd look at someone like that and go, wait a minute, you're a rock star. You could just check out if you're not liking your life. And of course, something like suicide begs that you look a little deeper and realize how tortured the human mind can make someone.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's, I mean, it's super depressing. I've referred to him as like the Jesus Christ of Depression. It's almost like he died for others' depression. You know what I mean?”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the best serious actors. I mean, one of the funniest people of all time, but as great, as incredible as he was as a funny man, as a standup and a performer, I almost like his serious stuff better.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So that's another thing about stand up. Like, I love the illusion of what I get to do in entertainment. And podcasting is great for that. But to stand up there and. I don't know. Just for me, it's like it would have to all be fake.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, early on, my influences were a very predictable list of guys from SETV, early Saturday Night Live, Monty Python, all of those performers really influenced me. It was later that I saw. People like Kevin Klein, who's an incredible actor. I vividly remember being like 12, 13, seeing him get an Academy Award for Fish Called Wanda. And it blew my mind because I was like, he was hilarious. I mean, it was one of my favorite movies back then and now. And he won an Academy Award. And at that point, I started thinking more about acting. And then I was, like I said, really fortunate to fall in with. I mean, I always wanted to do it and I was trying to hustle this and that when I was a kid and then I ended up getting represented and then I ended up on a teen show. I was on, I basically the easiest way to pitch it is it's like a Canadian my so-called life with these kids and their lives and stuff. And I did that for like five years. And I really love acting. I really truly love acting. And I don't, I'm not someone who wants people to know my opinion.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, as a kid, I literally wanted to be an actor. I always wanted to be an actor from a very young age, as far back as I could remember. And I was the class clown and wanted to do comedy stuff and comedic acting and large.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People are going up there playing music, but what band have you been listening to? That's what you're going to sound like. So it's really, I mean, of course, I'm speaking from zero experience, but I've heard it takes years, of course, to find your own voice. Stand up said when they first go up, they're doing some sort of impersonation of so-and-so. So and You got to pop this audience that's paying and you're going to get run over by the next person who's coming up. And it's hard to follow the last person who went up before you. I mean, that is a really hard way to, it's a very, it's quite a gauntlet to be in to find your voice comedically.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That to me sounds like someone who loves it. Got no questions for that person. I got questions for someone who goes sideways from here I'm recognizable doing something and then I'm doing standup because it's like and truly look I've been I've been fortunate enough to be in the business for a long time and at this point if I came up I mean doing live stuff is fun I have friends that are like you know some guys who are primarily sketch people or you would look at them as sketch people and they can sell tickets for being sketch people and they and we'll talk about it and they're like you know I do a monologue and I do a little stand up then I do a song then I do another monologue then I play off the audience do a little stand up but stand up is it's almost like playing music in that”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People who aren't sure why they're doing comedy. I would ask comedians, I mean, not good ones, good ones, you know what they're doing, but everyone else, like, what are you doing? Why? Why are you doing standup? Having said that, I am allergic to money.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maintain, bro. Here's what I'll say there's two ways to do it. I think it's lame when someone who's done one thing for a while goes and starts doing standup out of nowhere because I think it's an art form that's under attack because it's not like anything else. You need, although now you can, of course, you know, make whatever you want. It's the era of self-publishing as far as making a product and putting it out there, which is getting easier, of course. And I can't wait to talk to you about that with AI and how it's changing art. But in standup, all you need is a microphone. And, you know, perhaps it would be good to have some mental illness. And then you can just run up there and talk forever. And I say this to comedians. It's like, you guys have to deal with just an. Influx of”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know you go through, you do mad TV and stuff, and then that's where my, and this is gonna sound weird. Do I sound as anxietal as I did when I was on Bobby's podcast trying to avoid his questions?”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A good way to put it. Yeah, I respect the art form a lot. And I grew up with all the albums and stuff. I had an older brother and sister who, so I, you know, we had George Carlin, we had, you know, Richard Pryor, we had Robert Klein, we had Guild Alive, the Guild of Radner concert. We had all sorts of stuff. But, you know, I don't know. There's a lot of reasons. I do feel like a career in show business. It never goes the way you plan, like most things. And I was fortunate enough to get started outside of my native Vancouver or in my native Vancouver. I grew up in the Burbs outside. And there was a lot of industry there. So I was fortunate enough to get started as an actor when I was like 16. Yeah, there was some times early on where I came up with some stand up stuff and did it. But yeah, I quickly abandoned it.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm originally from Canada. Yeah. So I'm a freaking pinko socialist. Is that what you come from? That's not a nice thing to say.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Once this whole thing falls apart and we are climbing the kudzu vines that spiral up the Sears Tower, like they say in Fight Club, Bobby will go back to his gatherer form and be happy as a pig and shit, just walking around in the loincloth with his bird hanging out, tracking jokes to people and climbing up on them for a stool lap dance or whatever he does.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bobby Lee is one of the most raw people, raw performers, who lets it all hang out to the degree that he will even get naked in front of his audience, which is usually a metaphor for someone doing stand-up. I'm bearing all. Showing you everything. Bobby will just pull his bird out of his pants. Yeah, I don't think he understands metaphor too much.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's the gatherer. Yeah, I've heard him describe that way, and he likes to describe himself that way. I worked with Bobby not too long ago. He came and did a couple days on this thing we were shooting. And I was looking forward to catching up with my old pal. And if you know anything about Bobby Lee, you'd probably be able to predict that he spent that entire time playing farming on his iPad.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was. I played video games up until around, I think, in 2010. I got the red ring of death on my Xbox 360. That was it. I never, or whatever the Xbox was then. I was playing, I had finished the Grand Theft Auto that was out and I'd finished the Red Dead Redemption. So I was doing that thing where you just drive around, you know, the streets of New York. Just ride around on your horses shooting people. And, you know, throwing grenades into groups of people in Grand The”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Burger time was an arcade game that later showed up on the Intellivision. I believe it was made by Texas Instruments. Horrible first generation video game console. And Burger Time, you just, it's like Super Mario. You just got to stay away from the eggs and the pickles and stuff. And you just go. And the bun falls. And then you go down to the cheese and then the meat. I'm not going to say it's as complicated as Skyrim, but took me a while to finish it when I was seven.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and perhaps they were thinking of us to do something smart with it, and we didn't, we just came up with Skyrim. Just what's that?”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's interesting when I think about dragons because now that you bring it up, these are people that probably wouldn't have access to the fact that there used to be dinosaurs. Maybe they did. If they didn't, they're drawing things that look like, you know, a dinosaur cousin, but cool that can breathe fire and has wacky wings. And a spiked tail. Yeah, where the heck did they come up with that? Because they're clearly, of course, represented in mythology all the way back to, no, not cave drawings. Well, the Egyptians probably knew what the, and they could time travel, so they would have gone back to the caves.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The lingo, and I'm uh, my name is Bjorn Hapthor Bjornsson, and I am seven foot four. And yeah, so dragons don't. Dragons don't scare me, even though they've been extinct for a while, new scientists, right? Is that check”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, no, I understand. I'm trying to impress you with my film lingo. You know what a banana is? When you walk like this. Do a banana.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the dragons are usually tennis balls on the end of C-stands, but sometimes they hang out. It's like, you know, it's like a little like the thing you got the camera on here. Oh”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm honoring the gods of this particular podcast would be a good way to put it. Yes, no, this is in reverence of and in dedication to you and our newfound friendship here. Which we are making on the podcast. You and I just met. Everything that we're saying here is the first things that we're saying to each other. So I'm meeting you on common ground, dressed like”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Correct, I prefer to wear shorts, but this was a special occasion, so I'm wearing pants and I thought it fitting, obviously, to just wear, you know, the black tie. And clothes do make the man. And I'm a, I would not consider myself to be a man of leisure, but I do enjoy shorts because my legs get hot. So that's what kind of man the shorts make me.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, me in particular, it makes me a fellow who did not get this dry cleaned in between because that episode of the show as we sit here now was around a week ago. So that's the kind of man it makes me.”
2022-09-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #323 – Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source