- ♪ Hold up ♪
♪ Every day, I wake up ♪
- ♪ Wake your ass up ♪
- ♪ "The Breakfast Club" ♪
- Are y'all finished or y'all done?
- Morning, everybody.
It's DJ Envy,
Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne Tha God.
We are "The Breakfast Club."
- And we got a special guest in the building, Deborah Vance.
- Hey. What's up, y'all?
And please call me Deborah Tha God.
[laughter]
- OK, so, Deborah, talk to us.
You had this crazy noncompete for how long?
- 18 months. Yeah. - Mm.
- Year and a half, I wasn't legally allowed
to perform or speak publicly.
And the one time I did, I went to jail.
- Damn. - Damn.
- But that expired at midnight.
And I knew that the first place I wanted to break my silence
was here at "The Breakfast Club"
with my good friend Charlamagne.
- Yes, indeed.
- Wow, people don't know y'all go way back.
- Yes, we do. - No, it's true.
We actually co-own a racehorse.
Her name's Wheat Thin. Here, I'll show you.
- Yeah, she's a sweetheart--
terrific spirit, beautiful mane.
- Yeah, she's work hard, play hard.
- Go, Wheat Thin, OK. - Yeah.
That's where Jess get her hair from.
- Don't do me. - Whoa. Whoa.
- But people don't want to hear about Wheat Thin.
They want to hear about your sold-out show next Thursday
at Madison Square Garden.
How does that feel? That's, like, the pinnacle
for a stand-up comic. - Yeah, it is.
You know, when I quit "Late Night,"
I kind of took a hit publicly.
And I wasn't sure I could sell it out.
- But you didn't just sell out.
You sold out in, like, 10 minutes, right?
- Yes, I did. [laughs]
- Damn, those tickets moved faster than Wheat Thin.
[laughter]
- So you got a week left until the show.
What are you doing to prepare?
- Uh, it's kind of rigorous, Envy.
I've got a trainer, a physical therapist,
a choreographer, a vocal coach.
We're just working nonstop to make sure this is the best 9/11
that New York has ever had.
- Huh? - We're so happy to see you.
And I'm glad that you came to stop past us.
- My honor. I am a long-time member
of "The Breakfast Club" Nation. - OK.
- Now, are you really listening for us or the music?
- Both.
My friend Kiki's turned me on to all the greats.
I've got That Mexican OT on heavy rotation.
- OK.
- BigXthaPlug, Nine Vicious, 1900Rugrat.
- OK.
- Hey, can we go out on a little GloRilla?
- Not Big Glo. - Yes, Big Glo.
- All right, let's play some Glo.
- Let's play "Let Her Cook."
- ♪ Uh, let her cook, whoo ♪
♪ Big Glo comin' through fryin' shit ♪
♪ Let her cook, whoo ♪
♪ All this sauce, I'm trying shit, hoo ♪
♪ Let me cook ♪
[Gabriels' "Blame"]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Mornings turn to night ♪
♪ And then the night becomes the day ♪
♪ I can't keep up with time ♪
- The hydraulic lift is bringing me
up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
I'm thinking this'll look way too far upstage.
Can we move this down? Let's say 3 feet.
Let's try that. Remark it. Thank you.
- ♪ Not a captive ♪
♪ If it's where I want to be ♪
♪ Ooh, la, la, la, la, la ♪
- [groaning]
Ah.
Ha, ha, ha, hoo, hoo, hoo.
[trilling]
♪ ♪
Hello, Madison Square Garden.
I'm back from the dead.
And just like Jesus,
I love having 12 gay guys over for supper.
This lining has to change.
I just-- - We're changing it.
- But it needs to change, like, now,
because I have to rehearse in it.
This is the stuff that's making me nervous.
Thank you, New York.
I'm still Deborah Vance.
Good night.
- ♪ Can't be a slave if I'm already free ♪
♪ Can't be a ♪
- And then at that point, I am Jesus on the cross.
And here come my three wise men, and--
[vocalizing]
- ♪ Who's gonna catch me when I fall down ♪
[beeping] - [panting]
Ah.
Hello, New York!
♪ ♪
What's up, New York?
[panting]
♪ ♪
What's good, New York?
[clock ticking]
[game chimes] - Nice shot.
- Come on, get up there. Phew.
[phone buzzing] That's the way--oh.
Ah.
Hey, good-looking.
You ready to rock the Garden?
- Almost.
I'm just having trouble sleeping.
And I don't want to take Ambien this week
'cause I need to stay sharp.
- Sure. - I just really need my rest.
And there's really only one other thing
that helps me sleep deeply.
- Deborah Vance, is this a booty call?
- Oh, don't be tacky.
Just get in your private jet and get over here.
- Wheels up!
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- So for a generation without economic stability
and so few job prospects, the small things
become the only things that we can control.
And the biggest question becomes,
who is making dinner?
- Aw! [applause]
Well-told.
- She is the best, truth teller.
- Thank you. Oh, thank you.
- Yeah.
Well, listen, in any other situation,
I would say, you know, give us a beat to discuss.
But since we already have a deal with you,
I'm just gonna be real.
I don't know why you need to tell this story.
- Yeah, I guess because I thought of the idea
and brought it on down to you.
- Sure, sure. - Had to--yeah, that's why.
- I just kind of feel like a lot
of writers of your generation could do this show.
- Sure, yeah, I guess what makes me feel
best suited to tell this story...
- Uh-huh. - Is that I feel like I can
balance communicating the crushing weight
of this economic system with the hard comedy...
- Right.
- And sort of the real characters.
- Yeah, with her, you're gonna get the funny.
And you know they passed on "Friends" six times
before they made "Friends."
And then there was "Friends." - Yeah.
- And this is better than that, depending on casting.
- I hear you.
It just--it doesn't feel personal.
- OK. - Listen, we love you.
We are so excited about you.
But this idea specifically,
it's just not sparking joy for me.
- Oh, crap.
Ay.
Not this one.
- Do you have anything else?
- Um-- - She does.
She's got--you have so many ideas that it's honestly--
she's like Shakespeare on crack, but not on crack
'cause she doesn't have a problem.
But if Shakespeare were a woman,
which maybe she was... - Maybe.
- She is like that-- crazy amount of ideas,
some of them new, some of them old.
Some of them IP, if you want that, and some of them not.
- OK. - So we're gonna regroup.
We're gonna talk about it.
We're gonna figure out what makes sense for you.
We're gonna bring it back. - Yeah.
- And it's gonna be good.
- I love this. I love this.
This is sparking joy.
Yay.
- I'll bring you something else.
- Please do.
- ♪ Sometimes I wonder what I'd do ♪
♪ Without your love, yeah ♪
♪ Without your love, baby ♪ - [snoring]
- ♪ Somebody help me now ♪ [clattering]
- Ah, damn it.
[cart clattering]
Sorry. Sorry.
- Good morning. - Morning.
Sleep well?
- I did.
[phone buzzing]
- Ay-yi-yi.
I-- - No, it's OK. It's OK.
- Hey, Tyler.
How you doing?
Uh-huh.
Sure.
Uh...
Severance package?
What? - Oh, God.
- Put out to pasture by a bunch of dorky computer kids.
I've always hated computers, by the way.
- Oh, they've ruined everything.
- Deborah, I think this might be ageism.
- Yeah, well, welcome to the club.
I mean, you're 40 years behind, but we're happy to have you.
- I've given 35 years to the Palmetto.
I helped build that fucking place!
- I get it.
It's terrible.
- [sighs]
What the hell am I gonna do now, Deb?
- I don't know. I'm sorry.
I hate to say this, but I gotta go get ready.
I gotta rehearse. Tell you what.
Why don't you stick around for a few days?
Come and see the show.
- You think I wasn't gonna stick around
to see you play the Garden?
Come on.
- Course you are. [chuckles]
It's gonna be OK.
- Yeah.
- It is.
You take it from me.
[soft music]
♪ ♪
- [sighs] OK.
♪ ♪
- When I'm hungry, my whole personality changes.
- They'll be here in five minutes.
- I ordered the polenta fritters.
And where the hell is our waitress?
- Honey, calm down. - God damn it. God--
- Shh. - Oh, wait, there she is.
There she is. - Hello.
- Ava. - Hi.
- This is Jack. - Hi.
- Jack, this is my daughter, Ava Cecilia.
- Confirmation name, not real.
But nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you too.
- So will Deborah be having
a red carpet experience for her show?
Because Jack and I recently, we broke the seal
as a public couple when we were photographed
at the National Windsurfing Awards dinner.
- [chuckles] Wow. - Jack's a grandmaster.
He was ranked fifth nationally. - Oh!
- Yeah, he was dating another windsurfer.
And I just--I stole him.
- Took me away.
- I just--I blew his mind.
- [laughs]
It's wild times. - Totally.
[both smooching]
- Crazy behavior.
- So hot. - [laughs]
- It's just unbelievable. - Would you stop?
- Oh, sorry.
So how did your pitch go?
- It didn't go well.
It's not looking like I'm gonna have a show.
- What?
Don't they know how brilliant you are?
Oh, come on.
- I have an idea for a show about a windsurfer.
Matthew McConaughey, he'd be great for it.
- That actually sounds really sellable.
- Ooh! - Really?
- Yeah. This is how it happens, honey.
Yeah, no, no, Ava knows people. She'll get it done.
Who should he email?
[singers vocalizing]
[upbeat music]
- I mean, it sucks.
I had tons of episode ideas, and I didn't even get to them.
- I'm sorry. They're idiots.
- [sighs] Thank you. Yeah.
I mean, I'll figure something out, but--
- Can you pass me the phone?
- Your phone or my phone?
- The phone. I want to order room service.
- Oh, no, you don't order room service on the phone.
You scan it with, like, a QR code on your phone.
- So if I want to order room service,
I can't use the phone?
- No.
- I have to use my phone?
- Yeah.
- But I can't call anybody?
- Right, yeah. No.
- You know, it's no wonder you people are all autistic now.
You never talk to anyone. - [laughs]
I need to start wearing a body cam around you, girl.
Jesus Christ, the stuff you're freaking saying.
- Do not drink that.
- What? Why?
- No, never pull a beverage from the minibar.
It is marked up 700%.
I don't want to get ripped off.
No, I'll have Damien go to Duane Reade
and get you one if you really want one.
- [laughing] OK.
So I can't have it?
- [sighs]
Well, since you don't usually reach for the sugar-free,
I guess I should reward that.
This time, I'll allow it.
- [chuckles]
Oh, my God, I--I'm gonna head to my room really quickly.
Are you good here?
- Ugh, I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
- Hey.
You're gonna kill tomorrow.
- Thanks.
- OK. Good night.
♪ ♪
- I know.
♪ ♪
- [mumbling indistinctly]
[chuckles]
[exciting music]
- Good morning, New York City.
It's hotter than hell out there,
but thankfully, we've got some sweet relief
from the diva herself, Deborah Vance.
She's finally laying it all out there tonight at MSG.
And I'd tell you to get your tickets now,
but everyone knows the show sold out in record time.
So if you want to bear witness,
you better find a scalper, stat.
- You know, I realized you're right.
I don't know what it's like
being a young person with friends.
I have one friend, and she's 70.
- Funny.
- I've been living with Deborah over the past few years,
so the show would be about that---
two women from different generations
who live together and become friends.
- OK, go on.
- I have a ton of episode ideas already.
Like, imagine you're trying to hook up with someone,
but your roommate is in the next room on speakerphone
'cause she literally doesn't know how to turn it off.
- [laughing] Oh, my God, I can see that.
- They butt heads a ton on politics
and etiquette and fashion, but...
at the end of the day, they help each other
see the world differently, and...
they both become better people for it.
- Ava, I love this.
I love this.
It's based off of real experiences you've had,
clear character games, but still IP.
Can you do me a favor?
Can you please write a one-pager?
- I already did it. I'll send it right now.
- Amazing.
Well, turns out, we're only doing
one comedy pilot this year,
so a lot of people have to weigh in.
But I'm going to do my very best to push it through.
Stay tuned.
- Great. [chuckles]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- She's here. - Oh, oh, oh!
- Hi, my Little Debbies.
How are we?
- Well, not great.
None of us could get tickets.
We were trying to find scalpers to buy some,
but we couldn't find any.
- None of you?
- No. They sold out too fast.
- That's terrible.
Damien, you know, we gotta help them out.
- On it. - Don't forget.
I'm live streaming the whole show
on Deborah Plus. [excited chatter]
Love you. Love you guys.
- Oh. [laughs and squeals]
♪ ♪
- Oh, and I talked to the video playback guy,
so we're all set there.
- Fabulous dabulous.
♪ ♪
- I am addicted to carrots. Yum.
- The job at "Late Night"
wasn't all it was cracked up to be.
It's not that much fun to do something
no woman has done before, except George Michael.
That was fun. - It's great.
- Now, I know it's crazy to go back now,
but is Ricky Martin funnier?
- Well, it depends.
Have you had sex with Ricky Martin?
Wow.
She bangs, indeed.
You are overthinking, OK?
Don't change a thing. The hay's in the barn, doll.
- OK, OK, OK, OK, OK.
- Hey. - Hey.
- So MSG just flagged that they've opened the doors,
but they're not seeing the foot traffic they normally do.
- That's what felt off. I don't hear a crowd.
- Mm. - Well, what is going on?
I mean, is there a subway strike or something?
- I don't think so.
- It looks like there's no issue
with the subways or transportation or anything.
- Yeah, there's no protest.
- You know, I can't prove it,
but I know that Joy Behar is behind this.
She has come from me for the last time, I swear to God.
- [sighs] - Come on.
- OK, I think we should spread out.
[somber music]
[footsteps echoing]
♪ ♪
- Excuse me.
Have you seen anyone?
♪ ♪
- Deborah, can you come with me?
♪ ♪
- [clapping]
Looks like I'm in trouble
if you're doing crowd work tonight.
Hi, Deb.
You made it really easy for me to buy this show out
when you made your ticket prices so low.
I appreciate that.
- Why?
- Because I want you to stop.
For months, your heroic exit was the first thing
I heard about every single day.
It was a fucking nightmare for me.
I got questions about it in every interview,
almost lost my board's trust.
I had to reduce my bonus package.
And things have finally quieted down.
So the last thing I need is you bringing it all back up again.
- So, what?
You think you can just silence me forever?
- I'm gonna try.
I have an NDA, and I want you to sign it.
- [scoffs] - You'll get a big payout.
And all you have to do is agree to never speak publicly
about "Late Night" or me ever again.
If you don't sign, I promise you
I will do whatever I have to do to make you stop.
I'll keep buying every ticket.
I'll use every possible outlet to make you seem unreliable.
So be smart about this.
Do you really want to spend your golden years
fighting a losing battle?
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Fuck your NDA,
and fuck you.
- [screams] Bastard!
- This is bullshit. He needs to get a life.
And if I'm telling you you need to get a life,
you are a fucking loser!
- Yeah, no offense.
- Siri, google "how to sink a superyacht."
No AI!
- This has gotta be illegal, right?
[stammers]
We gotta call the lawyers, is what we gotta do.
What is it? What is it?
It's not racketeering, but it's close to that.
- This happens.
Remember that one time 50 Cent bought out
the entire Ja Rule concert just to fuck with him?
- This is insanity.
We need to go to the press and expose him.
- Yes, we need to do a media alert.
We need to do a press conference.
- We need to kill him.
We need to Luigi his ass!
- OK, stop, stop. Now, listen, listen.
We're gonna do the show, and we're gonna do it for free.
That way, he can't stop the ticket sales,
and he can't mess with it,
and anybody who wants to come can come.
- This was the only date that MSG had.
- I know that.
I want to do it in Central Park.
- Oh, OK.
Yeah. Yes.
I'll call the Parks Department.
We can target the springtime. We can--
- No, this weekend.
- This weekend. Well--
- What about the MSG record? - Forget that.
I just--I just need to do the show.
- Yeah, but, Deborah, you have costume changes.
You have pyrotechnics. You have a hydraulic lift.
- No, no, forget all that.
Just me and a mic.
And I want to do it now.
- OK, well, then we'll figure it out.
Right, Jimmy?
- Yes. I will start making some calls.
- I'll text my camp friends.
They run New York.
- OK, there was a show last night in the park.
Maybe we could use their stage.
- Whoa. Let me get this straight.
You want us to put together a free stand-up show
in Central Park with no prior planning, no infrastructure?
And you want this to happen in three days?
- That's right. - Yeah.
- God, I love this business.
It's 90% the most delusional, lazy people
you ever seen in your life
and 10% the most delusional workaholics.
And I, for one, am proud and honored
to be part of that latter 10%.
Let's go. Let's fucking go!
- Yes, Randi, go on!
- ♪ Love in your heart ♪
♪ Take a little time for the world ♪
♪ Where there's a will, there's a way ♪
♪ Come together, don't stray ♪
♪ Just put a little care in your heart ♪
- Look, look, just hear me out.
Just hear me out. - I can't do it.
I'm sorry, miss. - No, listen, please.
All you have to do is hold the stage through the weekend.
I'll pay a rental fee. I'll pay all your overtime.
Just name your price. - It's not about the money.
We have to break all this down and get it out of here by noon.
- Excuse me, do you two beautiful boys
know who you're talking to?
That is the queen of comedy!
- I don't care if she's the queen of freaking Sheba.
She's not getting the stage. We have to pack it up.
Boss' orders. - Well, who's your boss?
Where is he? Can I talk to him?
- Boss. - Well, well, well.
Turns out, the doctor was a woman.
- Oh, my God. - Weed?
- In the flesh, Ava Daniels.
Fall Out Boy rocked the park last night.
Now we just gotta strike this whole rig,
get it back up in Topeka by Tuesday, 0600.
- OK, we understand that, but if you could just push--
- Push? No, it's a domino effect, white boy.
This is one of the tightest schedules
I've ever constructed.
They're playing 56 domestic dates
before we hop the pond to Glasto.
- Weed, listen, I know we've had our differences
in the past, but I was supposed to play the Garden,
and then I got screwed over.
Please.
I just need to say my piece.
- Deb, I'm gonna stop you right there.
Keep this stage up through the weekend.
Get them to Topeka in, what, 39 hours?
That'd take a miracle.
It's lucky for you, though... [chuckles]
You're looking at a miracle worker.
- So-- - When you canned me,
that was a first in my entire career.
I was shell-shocked.
And I am embarrassed to admit I did relapse.
I went completely dark.
I woke up flat on my back in a bed,
not a chair,
in a motel in Juárez.
My hair was in cornrows.
My eyebrows had been burned off.
And I was holding an Apple TV remote, but...
all the room had was a Roku.
What is that?
I had no memory of the previous three months.
And then my boy Pete Wentz called me back in.
We did 14 grueling back-to-back shows in the South Atlantic.
And then one morning in Omaha, Pete said to me,
"Weed, oh, God, Weed,
you're better than you've ever been."
And I owe that to you, Deb.
You gotta crash and burn before you can rise, sister.
I'ma make this work for you.
You can use our stage. - Oh.
- Thank you so much. Thank you.
- Hands off, bud! - Sorry!
- Bring it in, Deb. Bring it in.
Oh, Deb. - Thank you, Weed.
- Deb, Deb, Debbie.
There's only one thing that I can't allow,
and that's a grievance from the Park Department.
So you're gonna need to get a permit to perform.
Without it, city's gonna shut you down anyway.
- No problem. We are on it, Ms. Weed.
- Go!
- Oh!
- You don't want to play the Garden anyway.
Terrible load-out.
- Thanks, Weed. - Mm-hmm.
Love you, Deb!
- Yeah, love you too.
[upbeat music]
- She loves me.
[laughs]
♪ ♪
[knocking on door]
- Hey.
- Hi.
- This is pot. Can you believe it?
- Yup. Can I come in?
- Sure. Come in.
[sighs]
- You know, after what Bob Lipka pulled last night,
made me realize pretty much every stiff in a suit
is a lying, selfish piece of shit.
- Men are dogs, Deb.
- But not you.
We've been looking for someone to run
the operations at the casino.
So why don't you come work for me and Marcus at The Diva?
- You mean it?
- Now, listen, it wouldn't be like the Palmetto.
This is a small, independently-owned casino.
You'd have to be on the floor. You wouldn't be in the C-suite.
- Oh, I hate the C-suite.
You know me. I'm a man of the people.
I want to be on the floor, shaking hands, slapping asses.
- Well, you can't do that anymore.
- Yeah, OK. Right. I forgot.
- Now, I've run this by Marcus, and he's on board.
He's always liked you better than I have anyway.
- [laughs]
- So what do you say?
[gentle music]
- I'd love to.
This means the world to me.
♪ ♪
- Great, great.
All right, I gotta go.
I have to get as many people as possible into Central Park
this weekend. - Whoa, whoa. What's going on?
- I'm doing my show there, for free.
- What?
- So now I just gotta get the word out.
- Wow. And you need people.
- Yeah. - I'll get you people.
I got my guys in Atlantic City, Mohegan Sun--
we bus tourists in all the time.
You give me the word, and I'll unleash The Marty.
- OK, unleash away. [laughs]
- Hoo-ah! All right!
We're back, baby.
Mwah. - [laughs]
OK, good, good.
All right, now, lay off the lollipops.
We drug test at The Diva.
- [laughs]
Thank you, boss!
Will do.
- ♪ Oh ♪
♪ I got no right to cry ♪ - ♪ No right to cry ♪
- You want a permit for this weekend, in Central Park?
- Yes. - [chuckles]
It takes 30 days to process a permit in New York City, OK?
There is nothing that I can do.
- Please, look, this isn't just about a permit, all right?
It's about sticking it to the man.
- Yeah, and you could be a part of that.
I mean, screw your boss.
Go above his head.
- My boss is a woman,
and we're in a relationship outside of work.
And I don't feel comfortable keeping secrets from her.
- That's beautiful. - We would never ask you
to do that. - That's respectable
and honorable. I love that.
- We love gays. - Listen,
if you've ever had a dream crushed,
if you've ever been bullied... - Mm-hmm.
- Then you know what Deborah Vance
is going through right now.
And we have the chance to right that wrong,
to let her speak truth to power
and not just for her, but for all people
who have ever had their voices quieted by the powers that be.
And if we don't,
well, as Desmond Tutu said,
"In situations of injustice, if we choose to be neutral,
then we are siding with the oppressor,"
something like that. - Something like that.
- Is that what he said? - Yeah.
- Are you done with your Shondalogue?
Listen, it's not gonna happen.
And if she tries to perform,
she will be escorted outside the park.
Now, please leave.
I have a well-deserved break I need to take.
- We were trying to be nice. - Please, just--
- Like I'm just gonna be giving them a damn permit.
Listen to my girl. - Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
- You could have said something about her sweater.
- Are you listening to the "I've Xenit All,"
the "Xena" rewatch podcast?
That's a great episode.
- What? How you know about that?
- They're about to talk about the pan flute.
You know she played it practically?
- This just came out five minutes ago.
Boy, who are you?
- Well, I've heard the episode because I produce the podcast.
I represent Renee O'Connor.
And the podcast was actually our idea.
- His idea. He thought of it. - No, we're a team.
- He's being humble. He's being humble.
- Child, I'm obsessed with "Xena."
Obsessed.
I wore the leather armbands to the prom.
- Yes! - OK, pop off.
- Baby, I even named my damn daughter Aphrodite.
- Oh, beautiful! - Aww!
- You think she likes that? She don't.
- Ah, yes.
- Are they really doing a live show at the Acropolis,
or was that just a joke?
I couldn't tell. - I'm not sure.
I could FaceTime Renee right now,
and you could ask her. - What? What? Oh, my God, yes.
- Actually, you know what?
I'm so busy trying to get this permit, mm.
- No, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait.
Shh, shh, chill. Hey, hold it, hold it.
Listen--
she nosy.
I think I can transfer the permits to you guys.
- Yes! - Thank you so much.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Baby, Xenites unite.
[both ululating]
- And those northern lights will be visible
for the next week.
So, Al, maybe we'll get something of a show.
- Weather's looking pretty darn good--
[knocking]
Is that Deborah Vance?
- Should we let her in?
- Sure.
[crowd cheering]
So basically, Deborah, he Ja Ruled you.
- Exactly, exactly.
What 50 Cent did to Ja Rule, Bob Lipka did to me.
- Yeah, men are dogs.
- It's despicable.
- But I'm reclaiming my time.
And I'm hoping that you, America,
will come out to hear it.
- If you are in the tri-state area,
get out to Central Park.
See Deborah Vance, the one and only.
- You like comedy? - Free shows at the park.
Central Park live.
Deborah Vance live in Central Park.
- Here you go. Free comedy show.
You like comedy? New York City.
- You guys seriously have to go see Deborah in Central Park.
She's my best friend ever, ever and my literal idol.
And if you don't go see her, you're a loser.
- I agree. - [laughs]
- Free comedy show, guys.
- My daughter's best friend and mentor, Deborah Vance, live.
Come on.
My daughter's best friend. Take this!
You're going to the show!
- Deborah Vance, y'all.
- So as you know, Deborah and I
have had our ups and downs. - [scoffs]
- But at the end of the day, she's a really great girl.
And it's not cool what's been done to her.
- Mm. - So get out to Central Park
and hear her side of the story 'cause she's funny as hell
and silencing women is never OK.
- ♪ I love the way that you give ♪
♪ Your heart too freely ♪
- [speaking Yiddish]
She wears a wig too.
She wears a sheitel.
- Welcome back.
We have a very special surprise guest.
Deborah Vance is here to promote
her free show in Central Park.
But she was only allowed off the black list
on one condition.
- Joy. - Yeah?
- I have to apologize.
You would know the difference between a Margaux and a Merlot
if I smashed it over your head.
And I think that toasting with a glass of iced tea
is just pure class.
- Thank you very much.
And I'm sorry I got you put on the terrorist watch list.
- That was you? - Yeah.
- [laughs]
Good one.
- Thank God I don't have to hear about this anymore.
♪ ♪
- SnackWell's snack well when in a well you snack.
SnackWell's snack well when in a well you snack.
SnackWell's snack well-- [mic squeals]
Yeah, Rick, I'm getting a little bit of feedback
on the right.
- Boss, boss, boss, boss, it's the network for you two.
- Hello? - Hi.
- Hey, guys.
So I do have some unfortunate news.
We're not going to be ordering a script.
- Oh, man. [clears throat]
- That's really sad to hear.
- Because we are ordering a pilot.
We are committing to shooting a pilot for this dang thing.
- Holy shit! - Oh, my God!
Thank you guys.
- There's more to come, but I just wanted to call
and let you guys know.
- [laughing] - Hey, Ava, congratulations.
- OK. - OK. Thank you. Bye.
Oh, my God!
- Hey!
Ava sold her show! - Oh!
Whoo!
Oh, my God! - Yes.
[upbeat music]
- Free comedy.
Deborah Vance on the Great Lawn.
See Deborah Vance? Right down to the Great Lawn.
- Deborah Vance, best comedian in the world.
Come get your merch right over here.
Shirts, hats...
- Hey, how's it going? Good to see you.
Try the hat on.
- Just don't get spooked if the laughs don't sound the same.
- Yeah, yeah, you're right. - We're outdoors.
Just remember that. - Deborah, hey.
So-- - No. What? What now?
- They've closed the entrance to the park at 72nd and 5th.
- What? Why?
That's the entrance closest to the Lawn.
People won't be able to get in.
- They closed it because it's already overcrowded.
- Oh. - There are people
spilling onto the bike path and the trails.
The Parks Department doesn't know for sure,
but my girl is estimating that there are over
30,000 people here right now.
- Holy shit.
[gentle music]
- They came.
And you know what?
For stand-up in the park, that's a record.
- Now, that's a pretty good lede to an obituary.
♪ ♪
- OK, everybody. Everybody, come on.
Gather, quick, quick, quick, quick.
Everybody, everybody, everybody, come here.
Come here.
I couldn't have done this without you.
I love you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
♪ ♪
- I love you.
♪ ♪
- Please welcome to the stage mi amiga Deborah Vance.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- How are you feeling tonight, New York City?
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
First I would like to acknowledge,
this is stolen land.
[cheers and applause] - Oh, my God.
I didn't even tell her to say that.
- Now, if you came to the park tonight for Deborah Vance,
you're in the right place.
[cheers and applause]
If you came to the park tonight for anonymous gay sex,
you're still in the right place.
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪