![]() ![]() But I think part of it is things are going better for me, and I don’t trust it. When I’m really off my rocker? Literally ordering pancakes from a diner and dipping them in milkshakes, as opposed to the first week of the tour, I bought two salads from Panera-one for before the show and one for after. I can’t tell you how many hilarious late-night orders we’ve had sent to the hotel. It’s a gateway to running up $200 UberEats orders. It sounds like you’re saying weed is a gateway drug. This past tour, my big attempt was if I’m sober, I won’t eat like shit. It is safer than pills or psychedelics, but I have no willpower, so I’m getting fucked up out of my mind on weed the second I start doing it. But I learned that weed is my fucking issue. I realize that I could probably have a couple of drinks a night, not smoke weed, and be fine. I stayed sober for the majority of this tour, and I’m going to do that again for the Fat Rascal Tour, at least for the first half. But it’s the difference between one nice meal out on a weekend versus every meal. Am I going to have one nice breakfast out? Sure. Print that: Hey, if only you had sponsored me, you’d be getting free pub right now. You want to drop a name for the service you’re going to use?ĭude, if they were sponsoring. And then I have friends like Matteo Lane, and he has a tour manager who calls ahead and gets him a room with a fridge and arranges meal delivery services-I’m going to do that for this tour coming up. One of my best friends in comedy, Sam Morril, he had back surgery from all the travel. ![]() There are a lot of motherfuckers watching UFC with opinions on it. I’m getting stoned and ordering pizza at 1 a.m. And I’m getting high and getting desserts every night. I hadn’t smoked weed five months to keep my willpower going on this tour, and then I was like, ah, fuck it, it’s the last one, who cares. The real answer to “what’s the worse thing you can eat after a spot?” is an edible, because you’re like, fuck it, I’ll eat anything. When things are at the start is when I’m Googling where I can get a salad.īut The last day of the winter tour this year was Vermont, and I really just let loose. I’ve gained a lot of weight on tour, and I know I should just be looking at food as energy to survive. But now I’m on my fourth or fifth tour headlining, so it’s just work. We’re in Vermont? Let’s go to the Ben & Jerry’s Factory. The first time you go on the road, it’s like a vacation. I’m in a strange city and I’m not done ‘til 1 a.m., all I can eat is dog shit, you know? I know I’m in trouble when I’m thinking about the meals I’m going to have when I’m traveling. The Stand has incredible food-they literally built a pizza oven before they built a stage in that club.īut for me, the road is where it’s mentally and logistically tough-you give yourself an out. The Comedy Cellar has my favorite wings in the city, so that’s always dangerous. So as you’re working out material in New York, what are the best and worst things you can eat following a set?įor me, the city is not really an issue, because I’m at home. I’m not sure you’ll be able to find the club under all that snow. Halkias admits that it all could come crashing down at any moment, but he’s not slowing down to find out. It marks roughly a year of Stavvy boom, in which his self-released Live at the Lodge Room racked up millions of views in its first week and, after ending his Patreon-dominating podcast Cum Town, saw his nascent solo pod Stavvy’s World crack Spotify’s top-100 list before it hit 10 episodes. (And living on whatever food you can get when those comedy clubs close.) So when GQ caught the Baltimore native at home between Christmas and New Year’s plotting his 2023, there wasn’t a shortage of subjects to cover.įirst up: the Halkias-headlining Fat Rascal Tour, which begins its first leg in February and culminates three months later with the filming of his next special, due in the fall. 33-year-old Stavros Halkias is at the front of a new wave of comedians who, in addition to releasing an hour-long special every year or two, hosts a thriving podcast or five, dips a foot in acting, posts to social media like his career depends on it (it just might), and, spends the majority of the year touring from comedy club to comedy club. ![]()
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