Bill Maher’s Weed Was Too Strong for David Spade
Bill “I’m not addicted!” Maher likes to blaze it up with guests on his Club Random podcast but not everyone wants to partake in his particular strain of cannabis. “When I did Bill Maher, I’m like, ‘I cannot start with your weed,’” David Spade told Jay Pharoah and Dana Carvey on the Fly on the Wall podcast. “I haven’t smoked in a long time, and I’m not jumping ahead to this vortex. So I just drank Tito’s.”
But Spade understands what Maher is after when he gets his guests toasted. “It’s a good, good scam because it gets them off guard,” he explained. “When I’m baked, forget it. If I’m drunk, I sound kind of stupid and I go on and on, but it’s within the realm of some thought. If it’s strong weed, I have no idea.”
Pharoah acknowledged that no one forced him to smoke on his recent Club Random appearance, “but I failed that test.” Even worse, Maher’s weed “is very rich,” Pharoah said, the kind you hand out to friends when you’ve got $500 million or more in the bank. “I ain’t there yet. I thought I was good with going to the dispensaries that now look like iPods, but apparently, I ain’t smoked nothing. So I gotta build my tolerance up with Bill Maher.”
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Carvey was intrigued. What was the name of Maher’s special strain? Jackhammer? Brain Damage? Spade guessed Crippled Hyena.
“I think it was called Diddy House,” Pharoah joked. “That’s what I think it was called.”
In hindsight, Pharoah wishes he’d gone with the Spade method and stuck to alcohol. “There’s a bit of lucidness with some tequila,” he said. “With weed, you’re just stuck. You’re trying to put together sentences, and you can’t. I was struggling. I’m just letting you know, the struggle was real for me.”
Spade hates that moment when you catch yourself and realize, Oh wait, I’m fucking wasted. “You go, I gotta pull out of this and try to be normal,” he told Pharoah. “It’s so hard. It’s scary actually.”
Things were different in Carvey’s day, when comics struggled to get their hands on some Maui Wowie. Now he marvels at video podcasts featuring Maher and others puffing on joints the size of cigars.
“We should start an Ayahuasca podcast,” suggested Spade. “Just throw up and then interview people.”
That’s the new reality of the 2020s, agreed Pharoah. “It’s so weird how the world has changed,” he told Carvey and Spade. “Thanks, Gen Z.”