In a 2020 YouTube video, he said, “[The show] reached out about booking me for one of their early episodes. And I said, ‘Aw, cool. I’ll do this tablecloth trick.’ I was all excited because I had done it on tour. I showed them the trick, and they said, ‘You know, we can get away with edgier stuff because we’re on Comedy Central.’ … I said, ‘How about if I get as drunk as I possibly can?’ And they said, ‘We love it!’ I couldn’t even believe it! Brought this huge bottle of vodka to the show. And I get backstage, I’m already loaded… [They] brought me out. I can’t remember a damn thing.”
When the show aired, he thought it was “awesome.” However, in the YouTube description, he said, “This video demonstrates how my identity as both a person and [an] entertainer were overwhelmed by my alcoholism.”
