Hey everybody, welcome to Jon D Podcast.
I'm your host, Jon D Miller.
Welcome to episode number 67, everybody.
Number 67, numero 67 in the old Espanol language.
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Mm hmm.
1211 going on 1212 days as I begin to record this intro of no booze.
No booze.
Yeah, no booze.
How are yous?
How are y'alls?
I say intro because I have an awesome guest on the episode here today, tonight, wherever
you are, whatever you're doing.
First met this guy 20 years ago, almost 2004.
My first trip to Ottawa to do comedy and it was a little scary.
I had to drive up there by myself from DC to Ottawa, capital of Canada.
And I get across the border, all that stuff to do.
I've been to Canada before, but with family and it was, you know, whatever.
It was personal stuff.
This was work.
And it was, I don't know, it was a little daunting, but met this guy, saw him first.
I was like, man, this guy is awesome.
This guy is awesome.
I want to know more about this dude.
And as I got to know him, I realized, you know, I found out what, you know, a genuinely
funny, honest, sincere and cool as hell person.
And we had a great conversation through the power of modern technology.
This whole thing was a long time coming.
We talk about comedy.
We talk about his jokes a lot because I'm a fan.
So why wouldn't I?
But we also talk about other stuff and travels and how it affects life and how life affects
comedy and it was really, really cool.
I had a thoroughly good time.
We lost touch at one point for a little while, but you know, we always kind of kept tabs
on each other and he is none other than Mr. Darryl Purvis and you're going to love him.
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And here he is, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to Jon D Podcast, my longtime friend,
my awesome buddy, Mr. Darryl Purvis, everybody.
Darryl, what's up, man?
Am I allowed to speak now?
You're allowed to speak now.
What's up, dude?
Hi, how's it going, buddy?
All right.
How are you?
We were.
It's been a long time.
This has been a long time in the making to get you on here.
It's been a long time.
I mean, in the intro, I'm sure I'll tell a little bit of the story, but I first met you.
We were working together in Ottawa at the Absolute Comedy Club in 2003, 2004.
2004, yeah, because I always reference when I know people or certain events happen by
where I live or who I was dating.
That's how I've always done it like my whole life.
Yeah.
So I remember where I was living when I went up to Ottawa for the first time.
And that was when I met you and that was in 2004.
So I know because I was just starting to talk to my first wife then.
OK.
And then I moved to New York with her in 2005.
So I knew it was before 2005 for sure.
Yeah, it was Thanksgiving weekend in the States of 2004 was actually when it was.
And I actually had to go up and I had to like kind of like sneak into Canada because I didn't
at the time.
I don't know if I could say that.
Maybe they won't let me back in.
I'd love to go back.
I'm pretty sure the Canadian immigration don't care about something that happened in 2004.
But I didn't have a work visa.
So I went up to the border guy and he was like, what's your business in Canada?
And I said, I'm just looking around.
And they searched my car.
They searched my car, search the trunk, pulled out the spare, all that stuff.
But I got through and then I got up there and I got up to Ottawa.
And as I'll probably tell the story in the intro, but I got up there and I met this dude.
I'm like, who is this guy?
I don't think I talked to you much before the first.
That guy was J.R.
Rebick.
You know what?
My wife was asking me earlier.
My lovely wife, Liz, was saying, who was the headliner that week?
And I said, I don't even remember.
I just remember hanging out with Darrell a lot and drinking as he wasn't a big drinker
so you and I drank a lot.
Yeah, we hung out, had a great time.
And I don't think we actually talked because I got up there to Ottawa.
I driven up there from D.C.
I was living in D.C. area at the time and I got up there and I talked to you a little
bit before the show.
But then we went on and we were staying in the same condo.
They had a comedy condo.
And then we went from the condo.
We went over and I was talking a little bit and then I watched your first set and I was
like, fuck yes, this guy is awesome.
And we just hung out afterwards.
And we've been we've been buddies ever since, man.
So, yeah, we did do a little disappearance act on each other there.
We didn't really talk for a few years, but that's me.
You have a family now.
So you have other things going on.
Sure.
And, you know, didn't even talk to you when the Capitals won the Stanley Cup.
I know.
Even get to wish you a happy Stanley Cup.
I know.
Well, you know, I do seem to remember posting on Facebook because the memory of that was
six years ago.
My memory popped up on Facebook of that.
And I remember putting on I saw in there I was I put on there all the all the anguish,
all the pain, all the tears, all that are all gone.
It's all just joy now or something along those lines.
And I just remember you like like nothing like nothing else.
Well, look, I I'm one of these people.
I don't as a Toronto Maple Leaf fan, I don't know how many hockey fans are listening to
this, but man, I will never be happy for another team's fans.
Well, you know, I just did my my last episode I did.
I just did a big Stanley Cup preview and stuff like that.
I didn't even talk about the Leafs.
I did talk about them a little bit in the previous episode.
And I was talking about the Panthers and everything.
But I was talking about how Edmonton and how everybody in Canada I'm rooting for Edmonton
to win because I want the Cup to go home because it's been since 93 since the Canadian team
won the Cup, which I, you know, it was a little bit kind of bullshit.
I mean, I know that the the numbers aren't there all the time.
But yeah, I always whenever my team goes out, dude, whenever the caps are out or they're
not making plus, I become a Leafs fan.
And I was really going way before the capitals most years.
By the way, and maybe we'll cut this out later.
I don't know.
But by the way, the overtime winning goal was at landmark or whatever for the Bruins.
He went to dump it in and then and then he went in and got it.
He was he was behind the red line.
So it should have been a fucking icing.
I'm telling you.
Did you not have not seen that?
No, no, I'll tell you, I was this is I was in the UK doing shows and I was on an overnight
bus back to London.
So I had my phone, but I didn't have good enough Wi Fi to be able to watch it or anything
or listen to it.
I was trying to listen to it at the very least, but I couldn't.
So I literally just had it on the NHL website watching little updates as they roll through
telling you what just happened.
So when they scored, it was kind of like after the fact, because I literally had my texts
from friends going, fuck that.
And I was like, so I didn't see any of that game, not a single second, because strangely
they weren't playing that game on any bar.
I was in Liverpool, not a lot of hockey fans in Liverpool.
And so, yeah, I was on the late night bus trying to get back to London so I could get
a couple hours sleep before my wife and I did some things the next day.
Like, yeah, I was trying to be a good husband.
So I came back thinking I think we're going on a flu tour of Camden town in London that
next morning at 11 a.m.
So I basically I got back at like 7 a.m. slept for three hours and then went to that.
So yeah, I didn't even see any of that game.
I've never seen a goal.
I've never seen.
I heard he led in two week goals.
That's what you get for getting a capital's goaltender.
Well, hey, they let him go for a reason.
So they let him walk to they even trade them.
They let them.
Yeah, as the Leafs will be letting them do this year too.
Yeah, I'm sure he just listened so many easy goals.
It's just he just can't figure out if he has ADHD or something and he doesn't pay attention.
But it's bizarre.
He'll be like looking the wrong direction and then they'll just shoot the puck from
the other side.
He's like, oh, where'd that come from?
And you're like, what what did you just do?
Yeah, that was the whole season with them.
So well, all right.
So let me get your opinion out.
So you're rooting for the Oilers or you know, not all of my words from Edmonton and I need
them to lose.
I need them because you don't need her gloating.
Is that what it is?
I don't need her gloating.
Oh, see, this is the thing.
See, like my wife became a hockey fan because of me.
So she likes the Caps.
She just roots for right.
But we're both Cowboys fans.
We were when we met.
So that's kind of one reason why we met.
So there's no there's not been any of that in her house, right in that inner house rivalry,
however you want to say it.
So I've never had that.
But yeah, OK.
So it's terrible in our house because she doesn't care at all about hockey, but she'll
trash talk me about the Leafs.
See that's bad.
And you're like, no, can't bring that back into it.
You're like, she's going to be out.
And you know, she's you know, she's either in it or she's out.
You know, she's a proud Albertan is what she is.
She's proud to be from Alberta.
So she supports the Oilers and not the Flames, though, strangely enough.
But yeah, she doesn't watch a single game all year long.
I put the game on for us last night.
We had friends over one of her friends from Edmonton, strangely enough.
So we put I put the game on for them to kind of watch while we played cards.
And I watched it more than they did.
I watched I watched every second of it.
Well, I take that back.
We did get back from dinner a little late.
But but yeah, no, it was a good game.
I so all right.
So let's hear about this.
So you're rooting for the Panthers, though, right?
Is that what you're I'm not.
Are you just not rooting?
I want them both to lose.
Can they both because who are you cheering for this series?
Are you cheering for do you really want to see like a Vander Cain or Corey Perry win?
No, you don't.
You don't want either of those guys.
Well, see, my last episode of Florida, do you want do you want Sam Bennett or do you
want to check or do you want Gudas?
None of those guys.
You want what?
Goudas isn't there anymore.
But yeah, I was ready.
He's gone.
Yeah, you don't want those guys.
The last episode I said I was literally said they're going I don't know which one I said
I want the cup to go home, but I don't want to Vander Cain to win a cup.
And then but you know, the same Corey Perry even worse than a Corey Perry.
Absolutely.
So I didn't even bring him up.
But you know, but with Bob Ross, I don't know.
I kind of feel like, you know, he's coming to his own.
He's 35 years old.
It took him forever.
But he finally he's a weird goal because he's a hotter cold.
He's one or the other.
Right.
Like he was killing the first two rounds of the playoffs last year and then going back
a little bit to normal.
That's when they lost in the finals.
I say he was back to normal, but he's just hot when he's good.
He's good when he's bad.
He's not good, I guess.
Yeah.
So you really cheering for the Oilers, huh?
Oh, yeah, man.
I want that.
I think the cup should go home to Canada.
I don't know if they're going to get it.
I did call Edmonton in seven.
So that's that was that.
So well, I love hanging out with you Canadians.
That's one reason why I used to love going up there.
I mean, I remember talking to Canadian people about hockey and they're like, all right,
shut up.
Like, OK, I get it.
We have other interests.
Yeah, exactly.
So let's let's let's not all do hockey here.
Let's get into this.
So Darrell, tell my listeners a little bit about where you're from and a little more
your background to to how you got from Canada, from the East Coast, Nova Scotia, the town
of Anagnash, 4000 people.
Lovely little town.
We have a show there next month.
And then I moved to Toronto after I graduated university and started to stand up.
And here I am 26 years later.
You know, it's weird.
I literally talked to three people only today before you.
All three of them I met in probably the first month of doing stand up.
So weird that those are the three people I talked to today.
It is pretty, pretty crazy.
Well, because you've done a lot of stuff.
So let's go back to that.
So you moved from Antgonish, you moved to Toronto, right?
And your first ever stand up set was at Yuck Yucks.
Yes.
And you knew from the very moment that you did it, that was what you wanted to do.
You wanted to be.
Oh, I knew before that.
That's all I ever want to do.
That's why I moved to Toronto.
Other than the fact that I was a Leafs fan and a Jays fan and I had family here.
But that's why I moved here.
Yeah.
First show went really well and I knew this is what I want to do.
Second show was terrible.
Yeah, absolutely destroyed.
I was getting heckled constantly.
Was this at Yuck Yucks as well?
No, this was another show at something called the Groundhog Pub.
You can remember this 25 and a half years later, 26 years later.
It is funny how it creeps up on you, right?
Yeah.
You never forget your first time and then you probably don't forget your second or third,
especially when they were different places, right?
That's why I always joke that comedy is like sex, right?
So it's like your first time, it's very awkward and blurry.
I'm saying you don't know what you're doing.
And then the second or third.
But okay, so you knew you wanted to do it from beforehand, which is right.
But since then you've gone on, you've worked in, so you lived in New York City, talking
about that, San Francisco, LA.
And then you just got back from the UK, right?
So basically what I'm setting up here is your timelines that you went through.
You did all of that.
And then and then from there you've gone on to.
So what was the UK like?
Because you just got back.
It's good.
I mean, I'm starting to go there a couple of times a year and I really quite enjoyed
it.
It's all on comedy, man.
They love comedy over there.
It's all over their television.
It's it's yeah, they just treat comedians like artists.
Like they support them.
They enjoy them.
That's the way it should be.
Yeah, the way it should be.
I mean, there's, you know, like I said, there's more comedy clubs in London than there are
in Canada, which is insane when you think about that.
Like that's that is pretty crazy.
Yeah.
So I mean, plus the whole UK is the size of, you know, one Canadian province.
So think of 68 million people who are comedy obsessed, just there's just so many shows.
It's so good.
I think my friend Bobby Mayer was a comic over there.
I was having beers with him last week and he said something like 54 percent of people
in the UK go to at least one comedy show a year.
At least.
I mean, that's pretty high numbers considering how many people.
Let's say the states.
They don't do that.
Yeah.
I mean, how many people, you know, other than coming to see you go to a comedy show at some
point and just I know a few here and there.
Yeah, it's not.
It definitely has a varying degree there that I would think would be as not as up there.
Yeah.
You know, I'll say this about European countries.
They love alcohol.
This is true.
In a way that I don't think we understand.
And that was what I couldn't believe.
But like, I still am blown away by how drunk people are in Europe.
But not like you and I getting drunk and we're walking down the street hammered eating a
slice of pizza or something like that.
Right.
Which is definitely been done.
You walk through the streets of like Liverpool or something and there are thousands of people.
And they are obliterated just walking from pub to pub.
Just you're like, but they're maintaining every night.
Yeah.
But they're like, literally, I can't, I keep saying this.
I can't believe in one month in the UK, how many people I saw bang into walls because
they were so drunk, just walking down a street and then just veer off right into a wall.
And you're like, wow, this is amazing and I like to drink.
We both know that about me.
I enjoy it.
I did too much.
So yeah, I would much rather never headline a comedy show in the UK.
I would much happier be in the opening act.
There's so many hammered people.
It's like, I guess it's like university, I guess.
That's what it kind of feels like.
Everybody in university got a homecoming or something when everybody's been drinking all
day during the big football game or whatever.
Yeah.
They do that here.
I think it's one thing it's funny because I was going back, I was watching some of your
stuff, your comedy now special.
I was watching some of your other stuff.
Some of the jokes, actually some of the stuff it was great because it was jokes that I saw
you when I first met you.
One of the things in Canada is they say university.
They don't say, we go to university.
We say college, even if it's a university, which I think is just funny.
I don't know.
I don't bring it up more than just to say the differences in some of the stuff, the
way just Canada, just right up there to the north of us has its own little sort of.
Well, we have college here too, but college is more of a technical thing.
Yeah.
You go to a technical college or something.
I remember being up there and doing a joke and, oh, it was this old joke I used to do
about being a lifeguard in the pool of balls at Chuck E. Cheese.
I think it was you.
I think it might've been you or somebody was like, we don't say, and then, oh, at the end
of the joke, I go, I knew I should have stayed in college, you know, just like one of those
little kind of funny taglines.
And you were like, we don't say college.
Like we say, we say university.
Just like, all right, this is fucking whatever.
Sorry.
We're two different countries, man.
We're two, what do you expect?
Yeah.
Your newest album, comedy album, Throbbing PB&J, right?
Which is, you didn't think I did this much research on you, did I?
Yeah, I can't believe it.
It's flattering.
What you've done, because I'm actually jealous in a way, bring up this question.
What has living and being in all these different places done for your comedy as far as, what
has it taught you from going to different places?
I think that's one of the things I always liked, especially about when I used to go
on the road a lot.
I went to Ottawa, I went to the West coast.
What do you feel like being in all those different places sort of taught you as a comic?
That's a tough question.
I don't know.
I feel like I should have sent these questions to you ahead of time.
No, that's fair.
No, don't please.
I don't ever do something like that.
I don't know.
I don't think about, I did so little stand up in California because it was kind of, I
almost refer to them as my lost years where I spent a drifting through life.
But New York, I guess, just, man, there were so many good comics.
Yeah.
Well, let's think about New York.
Every comic is the best comic in the city they come from.
And you're doing shows with guys that can't get on at comedy clubs, even though they go
back and headline all the clubs in the state they're from.
And it just, I think it kind of taught me to work harder.
That was the number one thing.
Like you need to hone your jokes.
Up your game.
I know every time I went and visited New York, even when I went and hung out with you up
there or other people I knew, you know, yeah, you would, I'd be out working the road or
something and I'd be like, Oh, I got my shit together.
And then you go to New York and go to a club and see somebody go up there and just destroy
for 20 minutes and nobody's ever heard of them.
Never, ever.
You know what I mean?
I mean, they might be known sort of locally in the club, that club scene.
But as far as I'm like, I've never heard of Mike so and so.
Yeah.
They're absolutely some of the funniest people you ever seen.
You're like, well, fuck.
All right.
I'm going to start over again with what I'm doing.
Yeah.
And it's crazy.
Like you think about the people that I did.
We used to do shows with like Hannibal Burris and Eric Andre and those guys were always
around and who else?
There's so many good comics.
Amy Schumer was always around when I was there.
And is to think of the money that those people have made and they were not any better than
anybody else.
You know what I mean?
I mean, everybody was so good that it's crazy to think of how these people just found a
way to get through.
But it's work.
Some people just work harder than others.
I think some people work harder.
I think they also sometimes their work is recognized more.
And I'm not even necessarily saying that it's like an aesthetic thing, but I feel like maybe
their work just rings a little more.
Maybe.
But I think it's funny when you give someone the chance.
Once someone has a little confidence, wow, they're a joke.
I know my best jokes are when I'm on a hot streak or something like that.
And then I'm writing way more and then those are my better jokes.
I would say it's, I feel like different stages of my life and it feels like I was in different
places in my head.
And I don't really think about my time in the States.
A lot of the times I forget I lived there until almost like I'm talking to an American
and then I'm like, oh yeah, I lived there for five years.
I kind of forgot that there was my lost years.
You were off on a journey.
I was discovering myself.
I was a very immature 30 year old living in the States is what I was.
Because I came from a small town.
I was very sheltered by my family.
I was a very, yeah, I always.
Well it seems to me for what you're saying, and I would agree with it there, like I was
saying like certain things in your life.
Like I remember where I like when I met you, I remember where I was living at the time.
So what that does is it kind of triggers back to me is where I remember mentalities and
mental states and financial situations and everything else in life that was sort of bothering
me or just whatever it was.
And I feel like that has such an influence on me.
And I feel like every time I've gone somewhere, lived someplace that when I really, the jokes
I wrote were reflective of the time that I was in and the place I was in life.
So I was just wondering if you felt like it was maybe a difference as opposed to like,
for instance, like how was Toronto?
Like you're now you're talking about New York City.
Now you're in Toronto, which is basically that kind of like the New York City of Canada.
Big media.
Don't tell Canadians that they'll be upset.
No they won't.
No, I wouldn't.
I would never say that to a self-respecting Torontoan.
I might say to a kid from Nova Scotia, a small town, Nova Scotia, but who's seen both and
can relate to how they vary.
I love Toronto though.
It's a great town.
Now I do not know the comedy scene that well.
I only went there one time.
I don't either.
I don't know about that.
Yeah.
Cause it's weird.
Like when I first started, I was so into the comedy scene cause I was young and I was starting
and I loved it and my friends were all, you know, just so driven and we all wrote together
and we loved, supported each other.
And now it's a little different.
Now it's like I come back, I'm older.
I don't go out to any mics or anything like that.
I rarely get the book to do shows in Toronto.
I have my friends that I started with, but those are the people I still talk to.
But I, yeah, I'm rarely in the scene.
I might, I go to the one comedy club that I worked at, there are the two comedy clubs
that I work at and I usually just do my show and get out and it's different being older.
You know, you're not sticking around, hanging out with all the kids.
They're going to another show that starts at midnight.
You're like, Oh no, I'll be long asleep by midnight.
Even where I live now, sometimes, I mean, there's, there's almost an open mic every
night of the week.
Now some are better than others, but it's funny how sometimes there's ones, there's
nights where I can do two.
So it's like a seven o'clock show and then you go six blocks away and there's another
show or the younger comics like, Hey, we're going to go get something to eat or we're
going to go, you know, and I don't drink and they know that, but they're like, Oh, we're
going to get some, hell no, man.
I'm going home.
Yeah.
But back when you were young, you would have been all over that.
You're like, yeah, let's go, let's go.
Let's do stuff.
I can't tell you how many times I had Chinese food at three in the morning, just sitting
around with a bunch of comics drinking and talking and about comedy and whatever.
And that just doesn't, I mean, I have my friends, we, I'm not going to say we don't go out and
still hang out and talk about comedy.
I mean, I did it just before I moved to or went to London, a bunch of months were hanging
out, but it's yeah, it's just kind of different now.
I'm not going to those mics and when I'm working out material, I'm working it out at a comedy
club.
Right.
You know, not like the old days where you write a joke and then you're, you're at 10
open mics that week, just trying to hone that one joke.
Right.
Now it's like, okay, well, I'm going to try it on the Tuesday night and see if it works.
And then if it works, I'll try to bring it back out on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
And then by the end of that week, you have a joke.
But yeah, I don't know.
Cause it's just weird.
I think like you mature and you age and whatever.
Like I find that now most of my jokes are less jokey and more story about what's going
on in my life.
And we were talking before we started recording about that kind of a bad week for me.
And I sat down and I wrote what turned out to be a 1700 word story about it the other
day.
And, and in my head, I'm like, okay, well tomorrow I'm sitting down and I'm getting
that cut in half and I'm adding at least 10 punch lines to it.
And then maybe I'll go try it at a comedy club on Tuesday night and see if it's anything.
And then that's kind of my life now.
It's kind of coming from the shit that's happening.
And a lot of the time it's not the good shit, you know, it's like skin cancer.
Right.
I got like an eight minute bit about skin cancer and I got, you know, and it's, I'm
a lot less jokey jokey look at my, oh, my roommate has a Yoda poster on his door.
Like it's not, it's not in like useless stuff like that anymore.
I, I, I, what I would say is, uh, you know, from going back and watching some of your
stuff and having known you for so long, I see the evolution in your, in your comedy
and your jokes.
So for instance, um, one of my favorite jokes is a sleep country.
Right.
I love.
Yeah, yeah.
You haven't done that in a very long time.
I get it.
Yeah.
But it's about how you are not a good morning person and you get, uh, woken up with a guy
trying to deliver a bed and the side of the truck says sleep country.
It's like a sleep country woke me up.
But then I, but then I go and I listened to, yeah, throbbing PB and J. Right.
Right.
And I listened and I can hear the differences in the joke, especially, you know, when you
talk about the skin cancer and the way you sort of put more of yourself, you know, because
when you start out doing jokes, you're like, ah, this is kind of funny.
Haha.
But then you start putting yourself sort of more, sort of more into it.
Um, like you'll, you'll sit down and be very technical about it.
Sometimes sometimes, sometimes, but sometimes it's a story.
It's more sitting down and the finger.
That's what we've taught in university.
My business degree.
Well, yeah.
Well, look, I was the laziest person in university.
I finished 97th out of a class, 107 or something like that.
Don't think I was studious or anything like that.
Um, I think of it as a story.
I sit down and I write and I try to figure it out.
But a lot of the times it's usually something that happened to me and then it's in my head
forever.
And then all of a sudden I'll think of, I don't know why I'll just be walking down the
street and all of a sudden I have a punchline for that story that happened to me eight years
prior and I don't know why.
Like literally this week I was writing a script for something and I put a story in that I
happened to me when I was still dating a single when I was on Tinder and the story about how
I was on Tinder in a public washroom, just sitting on the toilet going through Tinder
and I dropped my phone and it literally slid to the next stall right between the guy's
feet and literally the next guy sitting there and I looked down and my phone is facing up
to him on Tinder and it was just this weird, which I've never really had a punchline for,
but then I'm just sitting there writing this other thing and I went, Oh, and then in my
head I was like, just suddenly and now I have a new joke to try out for some reason.
I don't know why something else jogged that one memory.
All that happened was a guy just sort of slid it back to me with his foot.
I was like, Hey, what do you think of her?
It's just a weird situation.
Well, tell me what you think.
I know you're not busy.
What are you doing?
Yeah.
What do you, what is it?
What do you think?
No?
Yes.
Left, right?
What are we doing?
Yeah, that's exactly it.
Yeah, it's kind of funny, but now that I'm sitting here writing a story that I know I'm
going to sit down tomorrow and just try to pound out some jokes into it.
Like I want to, I want it by Tuesday night that I want to be able to take it to the stage
and go, I'm going to fill this whole 10 minute set with this one story and I want to see
what I can get out of it.
Cause I'm starting to realize, you know what, the easiest way to fill a 45 minute set is
with just a few stories.
Like they go a long way as opposed to the old days where I would literally do a 45 minute
set and I would have to remember 60 to 70 jokes.
I just can't do that anymore.
That's, I don't know about you, but trying to remember six, I remember having set lists
with like 73 jokes on them and going, how am I going to remember this?
Like it was insane.
And now I'm like, well, wouldn't it be better if you had like six stories and that's it.
45 minutes all done by-
Don't you find yourself having to remember all the parts of the subtle nuances and the
punchlines of the story themselves kind of get to be, because that's what I find.
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, I kind of always felt this like in school with history, like it was so easy to
remember so much of history when you just treat it as a story.
And I think once you make it a story, then your brain is, it just, and then this happened
and then this happened and then this happened.
And this, I will say that like the skin cancer bit that we keep referencing, there's three
jokes that go with it afterwards.
And I'll tell the body of the first story and then I'm like, what are the other three?
I have no idea what the other, and I'll be saying on stage going, I know I have three
more jokes about this, but I can't tell you what they are.
But that story is just, you're on autopilot once you start telling a story.
I think that's, you know, our whole childhood is our parents telling us stories and you
remember them, you know?
I know that like, for instance, I'll go to do a joke.
I have this new, new bit about people who dress up in costumes, right?
And how some people judge other people for being in these costumes and what's acceptable
and what's not.
And I keep having this one story because I haven't told the joke a million times.
You have to get it ingrained into your system.
And I will literally sit there the last three times I've done it and I have this awesome
tagline to it.
And every time I get done with my set, I'll go back and listen to it because I always
record on my phone.
I leave the fucking tagline out.
I'm like, why did I not get a good joke at this?
Laugh at this one part of the joke.
Oh wait, dummy.
You didn't put your, you didn't put your thing in there.
Yeah.
That's, you know, you tend to get bigger laughs when you use the joke.
But I've never been a storyteller and you have evolved into more of that sort of a storyteller.
I think, especially with Robin PB and Jay, which I think it's just good, man.
It's funny.
I listened to it and I can literally just see you telling the story.
I especially, and I don't want to give the joke away because I want people to listen
to it wherever it's available, which is, um, yeah.
It's not out there everywhere.
I forgot where I listened to it.
It wasn't YouTube.
It was, um, was it, was it Apple music?
Maybe could be Spotify.
Yeah, it was one of those.
But the story about how you got the name for the album, which was not the name, how you
got the name for the album, but what reference it is, what you call the album, which is the
throbbing PB and J, which is about, about your mom's books.
Yeah.
It's not a dirty joke at all.
Really.
It's yeah.
The thing is the person who did the artwork for the album, I clearly had never heard the
joke.
So he has this, the artwork is a peanut butter and jam sandwich that is very veiny.
You just went with it?
Fuck it.
Who cares?
Yeah.
It's not dirty at all.
It's kind of an older joke that just kind of evolved and that's all it is.
It's kind of weird.
It's kind of, unless I find an old set list and then a lot of times I'll see an old set
list and I'm like, I wonder what the hell that means.
Like I have no idea what half of those names of jokes are.
Cause I just don't remember anything.
And I wish I recorded everything.
Cause I'm always seems like I have no new material and that I have this wealth of jokes
that have, haven't used in 10 years and I couldn't even begin to tell you what I, this
actually happened just a few weeks ago.
I started to think about this joke that I started, I told way back in the day and I
was like, I wonder what the hell the punchline was.
Like I, and that's kind of, it's hard to repurpose something when you can't even remember the
punchline, but I don't know.
Yeah, no, I, yeah, my memory's not great and I don't, I just, everything once it's out
of my head.
I've definitely had some times lately where I've come across an old set list and I remember,
I remember the main gist of the joke, but like I was saying before, like with the tagline,
it's like, you're like, ah, I can't remember it.
What about, that was the other joke I was, I'm laughing about it still.
You're talking about being at work, right?
And how the company you're working for are hiring mentally challenged people, right?
This goes back to the whole where they, you know, and then you're sitting there at work
and you're like, oh, am I mentally challenged?
I was literally, that was probably one of the jokes that I, well, when I first saw you,
I was like, man, I got to hang out with this dude.
I got to see what this mentally challenged person has going on.
All right, Darrell.
So here's what we're going to do.
We're going to take a little break.
Okay.
And then we're going to come back and we're going to, we're going to talk to you some
more.
All right.
So everybody stick around more episode 67 of John D podcast with Darrell Purvis after
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today, Mr. Darryll Purvis.
I should say this evening, Darryll, you brought up an interesting note.
I didn't even think about it.
The last time the Leafs won the cup was in 1967.
And then thanks for having me on.
I did.
That was not seven.
As I was saying during the break, you know, when the band was playing, what I was saying
was right.
I actually know that was probably a blend jet commercial and maybe a little bit of music.
But I was saying it was going to be 66, but then we had, which is Lemieux's number.
But anyways, I'm sorry, buddy.
It wasn't, it wasn't on purpose.
It just comes up a lot somehow in life.
Yeah, I hear you, man.
No, no worries.
I just thought it was funny when I mentioned that.
All right.
So let's, let's go back to, so a couple of things I want to talk to you more about earlier
on in your career.
When you were first starting out, did you find like, what are the challenges you felt
that you had earlier early in your career that, you know, things you had to learn, unlearn,
ways you had to be like with your comedy?
And do you, do you have any lessons that you learned then that you still think now?
I learned that I finished your set.
Yeah.
I think no matter how bad it's going, get to the end of it.
I had the worst set in England this trip around and I had to do 20 to 25.
God did they hate me.
From the get go, as soon as I stood on stage and set up from Canada, I saw a bunch of guys
cross their arms and I was like, Oh, here we go.
That's called a defensive posture is what that's called.
Yeah.
And you could tell they were trying not to laugh.
And it was just one of those things where you're like, I, I could see the MC coming
to get me.
It was going so bad.
It was probably the worst I've had in 10, 15 years.
It was just like, they did not want to laugh.
And then the MC came, I'm like, no, I'm going to finish my time.
I, cause we're talking, it was a small crowd and time before the show.
And he's like, look, if we just get close to our time, then that's all I care about.
And I'm like, mm hmm.
Then I'm up there dying.
I'm like, you know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to take this time to maybe try a couple of the new ones.
So that stuff I've never done in the UK before to see if this stuff can translate over here.
And that's the number one thing is just do your time.
That's it, sir.
Even if you're dying, do your time.
You know, that's one of the things I get younger comics.
They'll talk to me when I think that I tell them always stick the landing is what I tell
them.
Like, you know, you're doing your routine.
It's like, like gymnastics, you know, your flip, do boom, whatever.
And whether those people are listening, they're talking, whatever, do your routine, stick
the landing.
And that's a, yeah, that's, that's good advice.
That's good.
I'd say the same thing.
I concur.
It's hardly, I find it hard to give advice about comedy because everybody's different.
Everybody writes differently.
Everybody has their own way of doing things.
And there's no right way.
You were just in the UK.
But what do you what is your spin or your thoughts on things that do transfer and don't
transfer between sort of the two things between the two, the two countries, the three countries,
really, the states, Canada, there's a little difference there.
But a big difference with going to England.
What do you what's your spin on that?
What do you what do you think?
I think most I mean, unless you're doing very specific to your country, most things work
over there because they have a lot of American television and a strange amount of Canadian
television.
I'm always surprised when I'm over there seeing a Canadian TV show.
I'm like, seriously, you guys have so much talent.
Why would you watch a Canadian television over here?
Right.
Yeah, I think it's like, I think that's what people think is going to be really different,
but it's really not.
It's because they know everything about you guys.
Right.
So it's a flat out USA.
What's that USA network?
Is that what it's called?
Well, there is.
Yeah, there would.
That's one of their networks.
That's one of their channels is the USA network.
They're getting all the worst television.
Jesus.
Yeah.
They're watching Full House over there still.
Are they really?
Not even the reunion one.
The fucking original.
I know.
Is that is that on US?
The US?
I don't know.
The USA network.
Yeah, but there is a USA network.
Yeah.
But I don't know what they do over there.
I know they do have like, for instance, I had a friend of mine who was had lived over
here originally from the UK, lived over here for a long time, became a caps fan and was,
you know, I was emailing him one time and I was like, man, I don't have any cable.
I'm trying to watch some of these some of these playoff games.
And he was like, oh, just go on this website.
But he's like, this is how I watch the games in the UK now.
It's like, no shit.
But it was all it was all it was all British stuff.
It was British coverage of North American sports.
Oh, like actual British announcers for hockey.
Well, no, but they would just take the feed.
But it was on like British like their British ESPN.
Yeah, Sky.
Sky.
That's the one I talked to you a couple of months ago.
And you were talking about you were getting ready to go over there and you were like,
yeah, you know, I like it.
I do this.
I do that.
And you were talking about the comedy and everything.
But what do you think about the actual lifestyle?
Because you're you're actually thinking about going over there and living.
Is that correct?
Yeah, 100 percent.
I was a fan.
I don't know if I really enjoy it.
I just think it's no, not what we grew up with.
And I really maybe I'm tired of living over here.
Right.
I just don't want to be in this anymore.
Yeah.
You know what?
Why not experience the world differently?
Different chocolates, stuff, different candies.
Why not crisps?
They call chips crisps.
Isn't that crazy?
It is weird.
I know when I was over there, I remember I mean, I went there when I was younger.
It's been a very long time.
And yeah, that's the flats set of apartments.
Yeah.
Stuff like lifts instead of elevators, which makes perfect sense.
It lifts you up.
Oh, yeah, I don't know.
I just I enjoy it over there.
It's just kind of different.
You know, my wife and I talk about going to different places, you know, as we get older,
maybe retire into Portugal or Spain or something like that.
We've seen all of Canada.
We've seen most of the states.
What's left for us over here?
You know what?
I think if I have a different world, live in different.
Do you think you could do that, though?
You could just go live in a completely different culture just for like pretty much essentially
what would be the rest of your life.
But why?
Why not?
What's the difference?
You can still watch everything you want.
You can watch every hockey game.
Like you just said, you just go to the right.
Whatever I mean, it's all there on the Internet.
You can still talk to your friends every day.
You can still.
I miss Covid.
I love that.
I love being in isolation.
I got to admit, man, I except for the fact that I almost drank myself to death during
the first half of it.
And then I sort of came out of it at about a last third of it, I guess, when people were
really kind of locked down.
But other than that, I kind of liked it.
I liked it being like, I like the fact that people were going, no, we want you to stay
home.
And I'm going, yeah, I can do that.
Yeah, that was.
Don't leave your house.
OK, I can do that.
We play games with friends and family every Friday and Saturday night.
And it was wonderful.
Yeah.
What?
Anyway, so think of it that way.
You're kind of like, even though maybe you don't speak the language, you still have everything
you need.
Right.
You still got your friends, right?
Still got friends.
Yeah.
And then you got a full house and you got all the.
Yeah.
You got Seinfeld.
Yeah.
No, I always say the Internet is such a blessing and a curse.
And the way it works nowadays, of course, is you could do almost anything with it.
I mean, you could find anything you want, any bit of information, you can find any bit
of video or anything like that.
Yeah.
Where did you go in the UK?
Because you know what?
When you were over there, I noticed I had some some listens in different parts.
Did you go to Scunthorpe?
No.
OK.
Wherever Scunthorpe is.
It's a it's a it's a getting off top top.
Which country is it?
It's in the UK.
It's in it's in England, I believe.
Which country?
Yeah.
So but Scunthorpe.
But I actually did a this one of my favorite things to do.
This is a funny side note.
Usually I will find places where my podcast gets listened to.
So people out there listening who might be in other countries, especially if I find that
interesting town, I'll go to Google Maps and I will literally just do the Google map like
the street walk and I'll just take a tour of all these different these little towns
of Scunthorpe.
Scunthorpe.
I'm sorry, I'm saying it wrong.
You know what?
You know what I know?
Do you like it?
This is funny because this ties back into what what you were saying.
Man, they had dominoes, they had subway, they had they had a KFC.
It's it's a running joke between my wife and I about dominoes because we everywhere we
go Aruba.
Hey dominoes.
Who was Northlake?
I guess that's I guess you go to you know, I guess you go to UK and.
Oh, it's not far from Manchester.
Not far from.
Oh, yeah.
OK.
So you're looking it up.
Yeah, I did.
I did a whole street.
So whoever listened to me in Schoonthorpe or however you would however you say it, they
probably have the heart of P on the end either.
But whoever's I did do a Google Google map street walk of downtown Schoonthorpe.
And I got to tell you, it's a nice.
It's a nice town.
I want to see something.
It's a very nice town.
I don't know.
I'm not saying everybody would say that.
But you know, you know, it is when you live someplace, you know, like this place.
Yeah, that's because you're there all the time.
I think is probably the biggest.
I was really close to Schoonthorpe.
There's a chance I went through that on the bus back to London.
Or you probably weren't listening to the show.
You know, doesn't look like the bus would have gone through Schoonthorpe, but not far
from it.
That's the show in York, which is one of those places where I talk about.
I can't believe how drunk and I, I, I, this was what could have been the best video ever.
Cause I was it got to York.
My show was at eight.
I got there at seven and nothing to do but walk around.
And I came across this street performer playing music and he was just surrounded by a bunch
of hammered people at seven o'clock.
Just as they would say up there, leathered, just leathered, they would say.
Were they celebrating anything?
Singing, singing along with this street performers, music and everything.
So I videoed it like a, cause it was seven o'clock.
It's still bright as can be out there.
Just so drunk.
And then I went and did the show and I came out of that show at like 10, 30 or 11, the
same street performers.
He's still there.
Still there.
But now there's only like four or five people and it's two women.
And then I saw one of them just kind of look around and turn and then just hammered the
other wolf through the biggest punch.
Like, and I was like, Oh, you shouldn't be recording this.
Cause that would have been like the difference between York and London and the UK between
seven PM and 10 30 it's just now two women are on the ground beating the shit out of
each other.
I was like, that's well, Scunthorpe, if you're listening to this, you'll know all about York
because apparently that's where a lot of people in that area go to party.
Oh, well, there you go.
I don't know.
I just thought it was funny.
I just, I was like, why am I getting so many listens in the UK?
Well, Darrell's in the UK.
Maybe maybe he's just, maybe he just turns it on for a second.
So I get to listen and then he leaves and he doesn't listen.
I don't even do that with my own podcast.
Right.
Which hold on a second.
We haven't, we haven't talked about your podcast.
I've been, I feel like we've been all over the map here on this, on this interview, but
it's been just so much fun.
It's just like kind of like catching up, but you have your own podcast that you are on.
It's a, where, where's the beer cart, right?
Where the, yeah.
Or a bar cart, bar cart, bar cart.
We don't always just drink beer.
Oh, true.
They do have, we say beer cart, we say bar cart.
And so you're talking to where's the bar cart, but it's officially where's the bar cart.
And that is you are on there with two of your buddies.
You want, go ahead and tell us about it.
I've listened to three of us now.
Three very funny, Monty Scott, very funny comedian, Nick Turi, very funny comedian,
and Gina Phillips, very funny comedian slash actor.
But yeah, we just talk about golf and we, we used to be more serious where we interviewed
people, but now in moments, it's just us just yapping and we're pretty stupid.
What, what do you find yourself usually talking about?
Like what do you, usually nothing to do with golf.
I'm not going to lie.
It usually goes off in some terrible, just ridiculous.
Have you ever get the chance to work with Monty Scott or watch his comedy or listen
to his comedy?
He can go off of some, some directions that you're not expecting.
Let's just put it that way.
And so, yeah, I don't know.
We try to keep it on golf, but it never works out that way.
It's for comedians.
What chances do you have to stay on top of it?
Right.
Well, I mean, you know, I do have some listeners out there that do play golf and some of them
are comedies.
Oh, if we get a listener for Schoonthorpe, I know that would be something that would
be funny.
Watch me get an email from Scunthorpe.
That'd be great.
You can email the show, jonndpodcom at gmail.com.
If you want, you can, that's the official, official email.
You can do that.
If you Schoonthorpe, if you're out there, I want to know who you are and how you know
about me.
That's so funny.
I just, I don't know.
I was like, I wonder if you went Schoonthorpe, Darrell, I almost wanted to message you, but
it was about two o'clock in the morning, your time.
And when you were in the UK, so I was just kind of the next morning.
It's not that bad.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know how you were.
My ring has turned off.
I don't see anything in it all night.
Right.
I want to go back real quick because I want to talk about a little bit about your family.
So you came from a large family in a small town.
But one of the things and it's another great joke because I love when you talk about your
family, talk about your parents.
One of the jokes that you have is when you talk about your mom being like overly dramatic.
Right.
And you say, you tell her, she says, you know, when's dinner?
And she said, dinner, I could be dead by dinner.
I was like, well, then you better get to cooking.
Yeah.
What kind of.
Which is actually not even my mother that that was.
And this is what my mother, she's no longer with us, thankfully.
But that was an ex-girlfriend's mother who said that to her.
And then I wrote a joke about it.
And my mother got angry for making fun of her, but it wasn't about her.
Some girl I dated for like three months.
It was her mom that said it, not me, not my mom.
But my mom got very upset that.
You wrote a joke about something.
That I told this joke about her.
And I was like, it's not even you.
I don't understand.
I can see how she could, you know, she could maybe misconstrue, right?
You know, how would you.
Yeah.
Well, my mom was a weird woman.
I hear you.
Let's not get too deep into that.
No, no, I won't.
I won't.
I just think it's, I just thought it was a great joke.
And just one of those ones where there was a little bit of truth in it.
I didn't know it was somebody else's mom, but you said it to somebody's mom, which I
think is one of the funniest.
Then you should get to cooking.
That's the way it works.
But everybody in your family is a D and P, right?
D. So it's all.
And the great joke is where your mom says, oh, that happened by coincidence.
Is that a true story?
Yeah.
I think I've ever asked you that.
Yeah, it's a true story.
So the whole joke is that my family starts with D because I don't tell this joke very
often.
It's a name.
I'm a Debbie, Debbie, Donna, Deanna, David, Darian, Douglas, and me, Darryl.
And I asked mom and she said, yeah.
She said, how that happens?
She said, it was just a coincidence.
And that joke's kind of developed now where it's because, I said, well, to be honest,
you're just busy having sex during the page in the big book of baby names.
Close your legs, open a book, woman is what I'm trying to say.
And then I asked my dad and my dad was like, what can I say?
Your mom loves a D. And I was like, I could tell you what you shouldn't say, dad.
But the funny thing is dad never said that.
I was an audience person who had told me one time.
I was like, that's great.
That's a great end to the joke.
That person nailed me and did me a big favor.
Yeah.
My mom also got mad at me for that joke too.
But yeah.
Yeah.
What are your?
My mom got mad at most of my jokes, to be honest.
So I had to kill her.
Well, right here on the podcast, is that what we're facing that information?
Getting into way more than I thought we would.
But that is one of the things.
My dad saw me long before my mom ever did.
I didn't let my mom see me do comedy until I was headlining Wiseacres where I started
that you came and worked down a couple of times.
And she was actually very cool with it.
But she was also, my mom was also very cool in the fact that when I was a kid, she let
me listen to, you know, like my son's age, like 11, 12, 13, I was listening to Richard
Pryor and Eddie Murphy and all these, all these comics that were definitely, definitely
way too on the dirty side for me, but they were supportive.
So that was always kind of cool.
Very cool.
I mean, we're in the opposite, but yeah, well, I remember when my comedy special came out,
we tried to keep it a secret from her.
The Comedy Now special?
You tried to hide it?
Yeah, we were trying to keep it a secret from her.
My sister, everybody like, just don't tell her.
Don't tell her.
There's nothing good is going to come from this.
And she knows.
And that stupid, the stupid network ran promos.
Of course she saw.
She found out about it.
What did she say?
What does your mom say when she finds out you have a national TV special?
Well, first of all, there was a warning.
There was a warning.
There was a warning about language.
So right off the bat, my mother was furious.
Yeah, that's not good at all.
So yeah, I was one of those few people that could have their own national comedy special
and have their mother tell him it was the most embarrassing moment of their life or
something like that.
And she said to me, and I was like, thanks, mom.
Thanks a lot.
Most moms would be more supportive.
But yeah, I mean, I could see where that would be like.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, I mean, there's actually a joke about it.
I would make fun of some of my friends who do drugs and I don't do any drugs.
And she got mad at me for having friends who do drugs.
I'm like, but I don't do them.
Who cares?
I don't understand.
You should be very happy that your son doesn't do any drugs.
Plus that joke, because I literally was just watching that joke the other like last night.
And you were talking about how they call you at 530 in the morning, which is awesome, dude.
The fact that you rattle it off the way you do is really, really good.
Oh, man.
But you're like, you know, and just like, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
It was great.
And then the end is like, is that water a click?
Like, dude, it was so succinct and perfect.
And the way you do it, you deliver it so like bam, bam, bam, bam.
And then it's done.
It's a good joke.
Well, you know, I disagree with your mother on a lot of that.
Well, it's hard to tell her now, but she was an odd woman.
I hear that.
So what are you working on now?
Let's talk about what you're working on now.
Let's talk about where you're going in life.
What are you kind of trying to do?
I know you were talking about, we're not going to get into it right now.
Maybe some other point will.
But what is Daryl Purvis working on?
What are your plans for the future?
Well, I know we were talking about my career is a bit and upheaval right now.
So we're talking off.
I just got fired from something.
So trying to figure out what the next process is kind of weird because I've just spent the
last five months writing script after script after script.
And then now I kind of don't know what to do with my day.
So I don't know.
I mean, right now, just trying to book a bunch of shows, trying to fill a calendar.
Right.
So people can get you at DarrylPurvis.ca.
.ca.
Yeah.
.com.
Yeah.
Don't go to.com.
Something going on in China over there.
Is that what it is?
Must be a Chinese comedian named Daryl Purvis.
Is that what it is?
DarylPurvis.com?
Well, I let it expire, I think.
And then it's just one of those things where it's gone forever now.
Yeah, it's gone forever.
Nice.
But it's all right.
CA work.
And that's what I'm working on right now.
I mean, I'm literally sitting down writing that I think we talked about earlier, that
story.
I'm going to try to-
Right.
Punch that up.
Put a bunch of punch lines in that tomorrow.
That's my goal.
It's very much what I want to get done in the next few days.
I want to, like I said, bring it to the stage by Tuesday, hopefully.
We'll see.
We'll see how it feels by tomorrow night.
But yeah, I'm not just trying to book shows.
I thought I had a- it's a weird story, but I thought I'd be working for this show for
the next little while.
And then now I'm not.
So how do I fill that time is the question.
And pay the bills.
That's the bigger question.
Well, that's one of the things about being a comic and people ask me all the time, why
did I get out of it?
Because I didn't, for a couple of different reasons.
One was because I felt like I wasn't getting anywhere, but also because I could support
myself, but I couldn't really support a wife and a newborn baby doing it.
But you kind of found to do that.
So you know what you're doing as far as that.
It's funny because I think about my friends that I started with and how many of them left
to get real careers.
And being so sad that they felt that I felt so sad that they thought they had to go do
that.
And strange enough, I'm meeting with one of them on Tuesday about getting fired.
So he'll be my lawyer as of Tuesday.
So his career leaving comedy benefits you who is still in the comedy.
Eventually.
Yeah.
So no, no, no.
I always think of it like, I mean, it's going to work out.
But those guys have such good lives, you know?
Well, my life's good.
I'm not going to lie.
But yeah, you're always like, Oh, what if I had gone in a different direction?
Yeah, I've thought about that a lot.
We were talking before, like I said, other people I know who are big now in the business
and everything.
And you sit there and you go, Wow, what if I'd done this?
Or what if I'd done that?
But I also realize, you know, sometimes you just can't, you know, can't worry about that.
Kind of got to move forward with it, man.
Yeah.
You got to keep chugging.
We've come this far, man.
I know.
I mean, it's a little late to pull out now.
Yeah.
No pun intended.
Do you have anything though?
From when you were younger, where you go?
It's like, you know, you change one thing.
Yeah, I mean, I think that maybe I shouldn't have treated it as such a party when I was
younger.
You know, I always worked hard.
That was the thing.
But I still, you know, you go away for a show and you maybe shouldn't drink every time,
you know, especially at a festival or something.
So you just take it easy.
Just relax.
Don't have tang free beers.
I don't care if they're free.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't have a lot of regrets.
I just wish things had turned out differently.
You know, like I had a weird trajectory.
I did.
We've talked before in our lives.
It just took off like crazy in my first two or three years.
And then it was almost like the Canadian comedy industry went, okay, that's enough of him.
And now it's been a battle for the last 22 years, just trying to make my own place.
You know?
So you haven't done anything where, and I don't think you have, but you know, it's not
necessarily about changing things.
I think that one of the mentalities I've tried to adopt as far, especially when I quit drinking
and everything else like that is, you know, one of the moments I have to take every day,
every week, every month is a moment where I can give myself something to make myself
happy, to make myself go, hey.
This is the right path that I'm doing.
Even if it's not comedy, it's really just that I as a person am sort of doing that.
Do you find that you have moments in your life where you're doing that just as a person,
just as what Darryl Purvis, not just a comic, but just kind of, you know, a little bit of
a personal insight into you where you like you sit there and you kind of think to yourself,
all right.
This is my mojo.
Oh, no.
I mean, look, I have a good life.
I have a wonderful wife and we enjoy our life and it's, I say a lot, we have a good life
because we do have a good life.
It's hard to, you know, when you're lucky enough to be able to go sit on a beach in
Aruba, it's hard to go, oh God, I wish I, my life had been better.
You know, it's kind of hard to have that feeling.
I mean, did my career go where I thought it was going to go?
Not so far.
I don't know, but who knows what's coming up?
Who knows it's around the corner?
That's a funny thing about this industry.
You just don't know, right?
You just don't, especially nowadays with the way the internet works and whatnot.
But no, I have no regrets in life and I enjoy my life and I mean, yeah, I wish I'd made
a bit more money, but at the end of the day, you know, just, you know, working with someone
recently who had a lot of money and he has no kids.
He's like, well, I'm not taking it with me.
So you know, might as well spend it.
Well, yeah, that's money.
I mean, it makes your life better.
It makes your life more miserable.
What are you going to do?
So yeah, I mean, I have no regrets in comedy.
I worked hard.
I tried hard and never, sometimes shows went bad and there's nothing you can do about it.
Sometimes you know what?
You're at a festival and you have a bad show and then they don't want to book you ever
again.
I wasn't the only person who had a bad show.
I mean, that's life.
Just what can you do?
So yeah, I don't know if that even came close to answering your question.
But that's what I was getting.
No, I like, I like my life.
I, there's nothing really here I want to change.
You know, it's a good life.
Nothing, nothing too dramatic.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
Like I said, comedy.
I mean, I, I've met enough people that have gone to fame and fortune through this and
was I as good as them on a lot of shows?
Of course.
But you know, the right breaks, not everybody can become rich and famous, you know?
So yeah, there's nothing I want to change.
Maybe if only I could remember more of my old jokes, that would be nice.
Don't worry.
You're preaching the choir, man.
You're preaching the choir.
If anybody's listening to this, they're probably like, I hate this guy.
I'm sorry.
I have a good life.
No, that's awesome.
I'm lucky.
There are purposes.
I love you, man.
You're, you know, I love you too, buddy.
I wish you could, I wish you'd come back to Canada.
I'm going to get there again eventually.
That is the goal at some point.
And then, and then when I do, I'll probably, I don't know, I might try to make it so it's
a, you know, summertime or something like that when there's kids don't have school or
a kid doesn't have school.
And make it, I don't know, some sort of a family affair.
Like, all right, daddy's got to go work now for a little bit.
Yeah.
Plus I love, you know, I don't know, I always like being up in Canada.
I always tell people all the time when I go up to some of the best clubs, the best crowds,
the best everything I've had in comedy.
And I've been a lot of good, pretty decent places.
But some of the best ones I've ever been to were in, were in Canada.
I mean, just, they're just, I don't know.
I love Canadian people.
And like I said, I mean, we started off the show talking about it.
Yeah.
We were talking about hockey.
I could do it all day.
I love the gear.
Awesome.
Well, you can find, yeah, throbbing PB and J available wherever you can get comedy stuff.
Apple music, I believe is, yeah, I was going back and looking at it.
Darrell Purvis dot CA do it on that.
Right.
I look at the website among the socials deeper comic, the P U R comic.
If anybody wants to deeper comics, if you're looking, if you're in Scunthorpe for what's it
called?
Scunthorpe.
Look, we'd love to have you on the socials.
Yeah.
I see it's close to pocket and talking of hockey.
Former owner of the Edmonton Oilers, Peter Pockleton, Scoon Thorpe, not far from pocket
in UK.
True story.
I just thought, yeah, anybody in Scunthorpe next time Darrell's back, Darrell Purvis dot
CA, you can book them.
I'm trying to see if I'm near a Scunthorpe at all next time through, but I don't think
so.
Darrell Purvis, you're awesome.
You're welcome back anytime.
If not, if not before you got to have to have to come back for episode 87.
We were talking on.
Yeah, let's 87.
Let's Sydney Crosby.
Let's we just have a, we have a whole episode dedicated to Sydney.
No, no, you cannot because Sydney Crosby is from.
Your hometown or just right around?
No, no, no, two hours away.
Two hours away.
Okay.
But he's from, he's from Nova Scotia.
So there's all these rumors.
He's been hanging out with a lot of Leafs players in the last few weeks in Toronto,
but I know he comes here and plays a lot of poker in the off season too.
So okay.
Well, you got inside, you got inside connect Canadian information right there.
Nice.
Well, you know what?
If not before episode 87, you have to, you have to come back for that one.
And I'll do 87 of my Sydney Crosby shirt on.
Let's do it.
That's fine.
Well, this is audio only.
So we'll tell people that you're wearing it.
We could tell people you're wearing one now, but you're not.
Yeah.
That thing.
Darrell Purvis.
Thanks for being on here.
You stick around.
Don't go anywhere.
But to everybody else, all my listeners, thanks for listening.
And Darrell, we'll see you real soon, man.
Scoon Thorpe.
I love you.
Later buddy.
So how was that everybody?
Huh?
How was it?
Did you enjoy hearing from Darrell?
Love that guy.
All right.
Anyways, thanks again to Darryl Purvis for coming on the podcast.
Make sure you check them out at darrellpurvis.ca.
I'll have a link to his website in the show notes.
Make sure you check out his newest comedy album, Throbbing Peanut Butter and Jelly.
I kept saying PB and J in the episode.
He never corrected me.
I don't know why.
But anyway, very funny.
He's a funny.
I feel like we talked about his jokes more than anything, but you know, I'm a fan.
So you know, why would I not?
Why would I not?
Right?
All right.
Yeah.
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Okay.
All right.
That's been awesome.
I had a great time.
I love Daryl.
He's a fantastic dude and I hope I get to see him in person again sometime and he'll
be back on the podcast again.
Less interview, more hanging out, just having a good time.
All right.
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