LOL WITH IT: Q&A with Jim Breuer

SNL's Goat Boy is performing all but one sold out show this weekend at Helium Comedy Club. This week he chatted with me about how much he looks like Kevin Bacon, cleaning up his act and, as always, heavy metal.

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LOL WITH IT: Q&A with Jim Breuer

POSTED: Friday, June 3, 2011, 12:00 PM

City Paper: Have you ever Kevin Bacon-gamed yourself?

Jim Breuer: Absolutely. I look like him a lot — to the point where [I] went on a cruise ... at 16, a bunch of teenyboppers were asking for my autograph. They were pretty convinced I was Kevin Bacon. He's stayed in great shape. I've given myself some pudge over the years. But I'm back in shape, I could maybe pass as his brother, but I don't have that hair ...

CP: What tricks are keeping you in shape these days?

JB: Fighting my food addiction. After any meal, I feel like I should be treated with a big fat chocolate chip cookie. I love pasta. I can eat six slices of pizza without blinking — even if I'm full. [After] weeks of eating grilled chicken and salad I'll throw two weeks worth of work out the window for a pizza. Now I jog a couple times a week. It's amazing what jogging does. It gets rid of everything.

CP: I guess jogging is a good time to listen to some metal?

JB: It depends on my mood. I'm pretty much metal but then I get the whole weird softer side that people would never imagine like Sting and Seal and Sade.

CP: You don't really use any foul language in your act, correct?

JB: In 2008, I started doing full-blown family comedy. In other words, I don't curse at all, and I don't go sexually explicit or dark. I want multi-generations at my shows. But I also found a balance. I'm a guy who goes out and kills. I don't want people saying, "Oh he was really funny," I want people saying, "I COULDN'T BREATHE!" I want people saying, "I've seen all these comics and Breuer smoked all of them!" I think I've accomplished that with a really clean act, which is hard to pull off.

CP: Are you excited to be working on anything currently?

JB: This weekend I tried out The Heavy Metal Family Man tour, which I'll be doing again in the future. It's gonna mix standup with me as a metal character with great metal songs. I just did it at the Starland Ballroom in North Jersey, and I'm still on a high from it three days later. That show just destroyed. Next week I go to LA and we're meeting with a couple heavy-hitter music producers, like guys who've produced major league bands like ACDC.

The next phase is making the record. I kinda did it backwards. You're supposed to make the record, then tour. I wanted to do some dates, then do the production side. I did two dates, absolutely destroyed both places, and then I got a few more in August. After that I'm gonna work on the laser lights and some funny videos. The point is, I want guys like me who loved metal concerts to be able to go to this and go, "This is one of the best shows I've seen, ever! It's finding that fine line of really funny standup comedy and unbelievable music. And the stage show is a monster. I think it's great, I think it's gonna blow people's minds.

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