![]() I could have to wake up in four hours to go wait on people that I hate. But I appreciate it and it makes going to the airport at 6am a little easier knowing, hey I could be going to a restaurant right now to do a job that I fucking hate. ![]() I appreciate bombing at those one nighters in Pennsylvania and Connecticut and I appreciate not making any money and having to go to a job during the day. When I was at my poorest and at my most ’s strange because it becomes a thing where I appreciate those moments. So whenever somebody blows up in comedy quickly, - obviously I feel the jealousy because I’m a human being– but more than anything I feel a deep sense of empathy- of how you missed a lot. If you skip levels to level 10, there’s going to be things you missed out on, that could save you. “This is a weird analogy, but its like video games. He compares comedy to playing video games. Nothing is easy- not the bar, not life, not comedy. Dan likes it that way. “I don’t think anything worth anything is easy. Professionally, nothing is worth…when you put the time in and you work hard, you build yourself.” “There’s an authenticity with this place that doesn’t exist next door,” he says about the bar which he also describes as a “by myself place.” Like jerking off and anger.” Maybe that’s why he described the bar as very similar to the kind of comedy he prefers. Just to make things more convenient we’re giving up pieces of ourselves. “My whole kick is, all the freedoms and stuff we’re giving up for technology. It’s a topic that comes up frequently in his stand up. That’s what I like about this neighborhood.” But this kind of place is still here and that’s awesome. Like the Morisco Funeral Home over on Astoria Boulevard and 31st street is now a fucking Starbucks. But it also is like, chains are moving in. “It’s become less neighborhood, more young professional. The face of Queens - Astoria in particular– is changing. This is a place where you can come in and waste hours here.” Even the lacquer of the bar…I just remember what it feels like to have a Bud heavy and a room temperature glass of whiskey and then go outside and smoke cigarettes and watch people get off the train. “This is probably one of the hardest places I’ve been inside since I stopped drinking…. “If I were to drink– I’d fall off the wagon here,” he said, “or in New Orleans.” Going back to the bar now, for the first time after quitting drinking, wasn’t easy. The world isn’t this friendly environment where you’re like, ‘ Are you upset with me?‘ Its like, O h shit, I might have to avoid danger. I like it to be like (using whisper) Hey, why is that guy staring at me? Oh mental illness? Okay cool. I don’t want to go to a hipster bar in Brooklyn and just get snarked at. Soder sees the bar as a microcosm of the real world. And then I left and it was like 6:30 in the morning and it’s like one of those things where you’re like, oh wow. “I came here at 3:30 in the morning and they were still open and I did shots of Jose Cuervo and drank Bud heavies and watched all of Surviving the Game with Ice T on closed caption with the bartender and we just got fucking hammered. There’s like 5 bottles of Jameson in the rack and that’s exactly what you want.”ĭan described a night about eight years ago at the bar that sums the place up perfectly. “If you look at it, there’s no bullshit presentation. “And you can do it very well here,” he said. He describes the fancier newer gastropub next door as “where you try to go to get pussy.” But McCaffrey & Burke is where you go to get drunk. I haven’t been in here since I quit drinking…but it’s…it was down the street from my house, and this was the kind of bar that my dad worked in. Not like next door which is like…a gastropub. “This is one of the best bars in Queens,” Dan said. ![]() Dan hadn’t been back to the bar since he quit drinking three years ago, and it was definitely the first time he’s ever sat down at the bar and ordered a club soda. Soder is sober now, but when he drank, this was where he drank. So the timing is perfect for photographer Phil Provencio to give us a closer look at Dan in one of his favorite locations in New York City.ĭan and Phil met up at Dan’s favorite bar in New York- McCaffrey & Burke Bar and Grill in Astoria, Queens. Dan Soder: Not Special premieres Saturday night, May 21, at 11pm on Comedy Central. ![]() And possibly the most exciting moment of the year, Dan’s about to release his first hour special on Comedy Central. He’s written and starred in a Comedy Central digital series, Used People. He’s co-starring on a hit Showtime series- Billions. Dan co-hosts a SiriusXM radio show – The Bonfire– that is growing bigger every day. If you don’t, this is the perfect time to be figuring that out. Dan Soder is a name most Interrobang readers already know and love.
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