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Hi, everybody, I'm Steven Brody Stevens.

And welcome to my daily workout video.

I am engaging the core, and so are you, hopefully, at home.

( PHONE RINGING ) Phone.

Hello?

Andrew, what's up?

Uh-huh. Are you serious?

Thank you, Andrew.

Booked it!

I booked a half hour on Comedy Central.

Boston. Half hour. I can't be stopped.

Push... and believe.

Ready? One, two and three.

Yes!

Enjoy it!

Who's going to Boston? Me. Half hour special.

Name in light. Believe it.

What do you think about that, Boston?

( CROWD CHEERING )

I have a half hour special.

I mean, I need to be confident...

in front of these cameras, and do well.

In Boston, I'm not in LA. I can't do LA references.

What can I say that is allowed in Boston?

I can't do 818 'til I die.

That's a local reference.

I can't do San Fernando Valley.

I was down on Olympic and Laurel Canyon.

Yo, that's a big opportunity for me.

13 years of preparation, for 21 minutes of material...

commercials included. You got it!

Yes! Yes! Push!

You got it! Say goodbye to the Valley, and hello, Massachusetts.

I'm proud of you, Brody. Very, very proud of you.

I'm proud of me.

Yeah, we have a guy that is trying to pick up teenagers with a tambourine.

Come on, do your Boston accent.

Pahk ya cah in the garage.

That just sounds like somebody who's deaf.

Pahk ya cah in the Boston yard. Scotland Yard.

Scotland Yard is in London.

The Sox.

Going to Boston! Yes!

I need to stay on my jokes.

I need to stay away from a crowd where they say, "Brody, you can't do crowd work.

"You can't talk to the crowd. You're doing a special."

You know what? I had a conference call yesterday while driving home.

Hey, it's Josh calling from the world-famous Comedy Store. You got it!

11:15PM at the Comedy Store, I get to go up there.

If I can do an hour on Saturday night, at the Comedy Store...

I think that will help me prepare for Boston.

Put your hands together and give a nice welcome...

to the fabulous Brody Stevens, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you.

I'm shooting my half hour special for Comedy Central in Boston.

I want you guys all to be there.

If you hear a laugh over there, join in over here.

Where'd you grow up?

Grew up in San Francisco.

There's a good chance those guys will walk out.

Wait. Son of a bastard.

You don't walk out on me when I'm not looking! That's a cheap shot!

I'm preparing for Boston.

I was-- it was nothing amazing.

Oh, now you're mocking me.

I kind of just wanted to sell my personality...

but I didn't give them tons of jokes.

But I felt tonight, I never totally got the audience.

Kids, get up, because it's party time!

I've done a lot of TV. I was known in Seattle.

Brody started doing his show...

and asked me to come on and do the show with him.

Hello, my name is Teina Manu.

We were putting on a show, almost by accident after a while.

You know, we were really proud of ourselves.

With my aunt and uncle, for three months...

until they got sick of me.

I helped create a lot of shows.

It's time for me to step out from behind the cameras...

and get next to them.

Teina and Brody are the greatest.

Whoa, hey!

Teina, I'm watching the old shows and they're funny, man.

They still stand up to this day.

Got great news, actually, booked a half hour on Comedy Central...

and I'm gonna go up to Seattle to do some shows and see my uncles...

and get back to that energy I had back in '94.

I don't know if you're heading up there, just...

Anyway, just thought I'd check in.

I'll talk to you later, hopefully. All right, bye.

God, I had a lot of fire.

Go back to Seattle.

Something here, man.

Something here.

Thing with Seattle is that it's a great spot for me to be around...

culture and coming back 20 years later, so it means something to me.

They say you can never go back home. I'm here.

Oh, jeez!

Home of Safeco Field.

Hello?

Home of Jimi Hendrix.

Home to legalized weed.

[BLEEP] these pigeons.

You're gonna throw an 18-pound fish at me.

Yeah.

All right, I'll try it. So you want to get that big one?

Wait, that one? What if I drop it?

Will I be embarrassed?

You'd probably be more embarrassed than anything.

Are you catching one?

Yeah, I mean, I'm normally a pitcher, but I'll catch this one.

A lot of people are watching me. There's pressure.

All right, where is it coming from?

It's coming from him.

Yeah.

Big ol' king! Big ol' king!

( ALL CHEERING )

Enjoy it!

Sure. Is it cool?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're my favorite.

What's your name? Colin.

Colin. Dude, I follow you like every day.

This guy is the funniest guy ever, dude.

Push!

Look at this, this has made my whole day.

Do my eyebrows look okay? They don't look weird?

They look like caterpillars, like--

They look like cater--

Positive energy.

This is where I began to public speak.

I was working. I was selling T-shirts.

Somebody give me a T-shirt. I want to throw a T-shirt.

Here comes a T-shirt... for you! Boom.

You got it. No receipt needed.

I'm here with Sonic Man.

Will the Sonics return to the Jet City?

This is national, digital cable media.

You have the chance to reach out and connect with anywhere from five to 15,000 people.

That's the power I have.

This is the most passionate fan I've seen, besides myself of course.

Let's stay positive, let's stay focused on getting this team back.

You want more positive energy.

It helps the community.

It's about a group of friends hanging out at a bar.

Keep going. Okay.

This region is too strong and too proud...

and too-- too damn good not to have a team here.

Thank you, Mr. Stevens.

No, thank you.

Thank you.

I'm looking for the original Starbucks right now.

You know, because I caused problems.

Oh!

At Starbucks.

You're gonna arrest me? No, no.

I want you to--

This is the original Starbucks.

I come back here to reconcile.

I made mistakes. I was aggressive.

I treated you like you shouldn't have been treated.

I was out of control.

You startled baristas, you upset customers.

And I come back to Seattle, knowing that this is the original location.

You're an original. I'm original.

I clean up after myself in your restrooms.

I don't abuse your refill system.

I don't use the same cup all week.

I made a mistake. Please forgive me.

I'm not extending an olive branch. I'm extending a coffee stirrer.

If you like to get in contact with me, my Twitter handle is @Brodyismefriend

The Del Roy Apartments, there they are. This is where I lived.

Del Roy apartments, I found it. I had a studio.

How much you think I paid rent?

$500? $600? $700? $300?

$400? $800? $750?

I paid $450. Yes!

This is where the character Brody Stevens was born.

That's where it all happened.

That's where the Steven Brody Stevens character was refined, it was developed.

The windows are open, I'm gonna climb up. Son of a bitch.

Okay, I can't make it.

And that's my bathroom right there.

That's where I would go number one, number two, masturbate.

And I would think that, well, can you see my silhouette while I'm sitting on the toilet?

Fondling myself? I'll never know.

I was here as Steven Brody. I left as Brody Stevens.

And I have become Steven Brody Stevens.

Push and believe!

We're headed to my uncle's house.

We have a small crew, it's only four people.

How does this gate open?

This happen a lot?

It is. How are you so thin?

I've lost 16 pounds. Remember I had a surgery?

Oh, you had a quadruple bypass. Bypass, yes.

Didn't you have bypass also?

I did, six years ago.

What did you have? Quadruple bypass.

Quad-- eight bypasses right there.

And Harry had four. Wait, he had five.

My father, he had five?

So there's 13 bypasses.

Does that mean-- and my mom had four.

And your mom had four, that's 17, so...

17 bypasses around me.

So, did you think that I would make it this far in comedy?

You're in comedy?

Oh, look at this guy, taking a shot at me.

When you first started out, and you had that Comcast--

The cable access show.

That was disgusting.

Because I got all the porn community behind me...

because there's nothing like a dick slinking in your face.

See, I just don't understand your humor.

Well, that's funny.

I know, it's a joke, and you're so funny, I just can't stand it.

It changed the world. It changed your life.

It changed you.

So, now where were you guys when I went off my meds?

Became aggressive, I became Harry Brody, Jr.

We were in Palm Springs visiting your mom.

Oh, you were in Palm Springs with my mom having a good time.

Playing golf. Playing golf.

I was not surprised that you decided to go cold turkey.

Because that's Harry.

If Steven has been diagnosed as being bipolar, and Harry had this fluctuation...

of mad to funny, there could be a similarity.

Steven told the story with Dr. Drew of that.

He has an issue with his Little League game.

It was 1982, Tarzana Little League, in the San Fernando Valley.

Lead off batter, Alan Nord, was hanging out over the plate...

trying to play head games with me.

I threw a strike and I hit him. You got it.

And the umpire approaches the mound and says...

"Hey, Brody, you threw at him."

I said, "No, I didn't. It was a strike."

There were tears running down my face.

My dad couldn't take it.

He was in the press box, he was doing public announcing.

He was having a great day, and then he saw his son get attacked by an umpire.

My dad was a private investigator.

My dad was a body guard for Sammy Davis Jr.'s wife.

He came out of the press box like a bat out of hell.

Through the concession stands, knocked over hot dogs, snow cones, Slurpees.

Batting helmets, cleats, comes on the field, challenge the umpire, and said...

"You don't do that to my son Steven."

Now my dad protected me with rage and possibly passed it onto me genetically.

Who knows, was he bipolar?

I got kicked out of the game.

And then we went and had a bagel, we had lunch.

I would say that your estimation of Harry's anger was correct.

Sometimes it takes time for friends to find out what their friendship is about...

then trying to make the friendship happen.

Well, you left a message saying you were gonna be up here.

I gave you a call, we're here, walking around on one of the most beautiful days of the year.

How do I feel about Boston? Yeah.

I'm nervous. I was happy to go back to Phoenix and like become friends again, at least.

Let's make sure that this is gonna rock.

Like I was doing up here with the cable access show.

I lost that. There was something missing.

I think if we put on another show, that people would come to it.

Let's do the public access show, it's Brody and Teina...

Jews and Samoans rule the world. Yes!

We've sort of discovered what we are to each other.

Whoo-hoo!

Trust and believe. Trust and believe.

I feel the Jewish power.

I feel the Samoan power.

So, yeah, Seattle, we're on top of the world.

Cable access felt good.

I think I kind of just want to do that show and do it for ourselves, do it for our fans.

I told people, like, "Brody, where did you become so positive?"

Well, I've always been positive, but then when I met you...

you kind of validated my positivity.

I am 10% gay and that's something that, you know, you've accepted that.

I was really proud of your development...

that you're able to now be with a guy that you like and that you trust.

Wait-- I-- I don't want to be with a guy.

No, I'm saying yourself! That's okay?

That's positive energy.

I'm excited. Me, too..

Let's do it. It'll be good.

I'll see you at the venue. It's all good.

It is all good.

Excited, we did a lot back then...

we did our shows and people knew.

We gave Seattle a conservative point of view, from a Jewish guy and a Samoan guy.

Yeah, you can hear that?

MAN (O.S.) It sounds like a big party over there.

It's a party, and you're invited. Hey, right on.

We'd get fan mail, getting the people who weren't able to call in on the show.

Saying I tried to call in 30 times--

( BABY CRYING )

We have to cover a little more of some promotion...

and do it the old school way, you gotta hit up the flyers.

Yeah, let's go find some people.

Got a show for you. Comedy show? Yeah.

We got Brody Stevens and Teina Manu in the studio, guys?

What are you guys gonna do on Sunday?

We're actually gonna try to pull off another live show like we used to do.

We're gonna be here Sunday. In the state.

In the state of Seattle.

It is a pleasure to be back in the Jet City.

Balance. Hold on, don't laugh at me.

Brody Stevens and Teina Manu, thanks for coming in, we really appreciate it.

Thank you, yes! Brody and Teina.

Well, that wraps up another rendition of Brody passes out flyers.

Here... in Seattle.

I hope we get a decent turnout.

Teina, you think we'll-- they'll turn out for our show? For Cinco de Mayo?

You never know, you never know who's gonna show up.

We need to change all these cameras then to RCA.

And then through RCA, we have the switcher and we send it to the TV.

Maybe we get 100, maybe we get 25, I don't know.

We're here, we're back and we have grown with the times.

This is cable access, this is cable podcasting. Yes!

Brody and Teina are back.

Teina Manu, let him hear it, Teina Manu.

The Samoan energy lives.

20 years in the making, you know, I began here in Seattle.

Found my voice in Seattle.

Now how many people remember the cable access show that we had?

Yes! Samoan, Jewish, connecting together.

We have family members here, who didn't believe it was tough love.

Let's get the show started. I'm so nervous. I'm so excited.

A one, a two, a one, two, three.

* Jews and Samoans Rule the world *

* Jews and Samoans Rule the world *

I know this guy, his name is Alex, he's one of the all-time greatest fans of the show.

Yeah, this guy told me about it the first day of school.

I got on a couple times. He got on the phone line a couple times.

You know what Alex told me? What did he tell you?

They would record audio versions.

Guys, this is back when reels had to--

This is like magnetic tape.

This is pre-internet.

You used to make audio recordings of our show and listen to them in class.

Yeah, yeah, that was a big deal.

This one here. This is a love letter.

Okay.

Brody, I've been watching you for a few weeks now and I'm liking you more every time.

First of all, you should know, number one, I'm over 18.

You know what I want? More of you.

Dropping your shorts, and gyrating, and less of Teina.

She hates me.

Vanessa, are you here, by the way?

I want this guy to go to Boston, rock it...

take this Seattle energy, yeah.

I want to say thank you to that and I'm proud to call you a friend. Thank you, Teina.

Yes! Yes!

It really worked.

I'm glad we've-- our friendship is sort of back on the repair.

This is Teina Manu, I'm Steven Brody Stevens.

You have just witnessed a 20-year reunion. Thank you, guys.

TEINA (O.S.) It has something to be centered around now.

Brody! Boston! Brody! Boston!

There's much more of a camaraderie and understanding.

I really gotta give it up to him.

Brody! Boston!

You know, it was really his effort and hard work.

Brody! Boston! Brody! Boston!

This is Brody's journey.

I'm really proud of him.

That's funny, that's funny, everybody.

You got it.

He got cut out of Funny People.

I want to play catch with him.

Stee-rike! Off the table.