Stavros Halkias

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0:30Hi, I'm Zach Barron, the Senior Special Project Setter at GQ, and this is One More Question, GQ's new weekly interview show. My guest this week is comedian, podcaster, and actor Stavros Halkius, whose new special, Uncle Stav, comes out on Netflix this month. Stav is a fascinating cultural figure. He rose to prominence as one-third of the podcast's Come Town. If that name is confusing or offensive to you, listening to the actual podcast isn't exactly going to alleviate either of those feelings. and now hosts the podcast Stavis World, in which people call in and ask Stav to help with their problems, something he is surprisingly good at.

1:05Along the way, he has somehow become an actor too, with a role in last year's Academy Award-nominated film Begonia, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, alongside Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone. More recently, he was part of an excellent ensemble cast in the film Tony, a biopic about Anthony Bourdain, directed by Matt Johnson, in which he plays a kind of scumbag but big-hearted line cook. Scumbag but big-hearted being Stav's lane, more or less. But Stavros' true passion is stand-up comedy. His new special is Uncle Stav, in which he contemplates life as an uncle, and whatever increased levels of responsibility and adulthood that life might imply, while wrestling with his ongoing issues around his weight and his demons.

1:48Stav is famous for his crowd work, but it's pretty clear that his greatest target and his greatest subject is himself. he's also just really fun to talk to so here is my conversation with stavros halkius i'm gonna try i mean seriously like i said you're a veteran of this i'm but a child so i'm gonna try an intro great go crazy and i can take over at any point literally i'll do the intro if you need literally anything can happen stavros halkius podcast king thank you from your years on Cometown and now Stabby's World. That's right. You are a rising, some would say fully risen, stand-up comedy star.

2:30I like that. The new special is called Uncle Stab. Yes, sir. On Netflix, Uncle Stab right now, I believe. You are on Tires with Shane Gillis. You have recently become an actor in movies as well. You're in the Academy Award nominated for Gilmira. I know. Isn't that fucking hilarious? I'm in an Academy Award. The first real movie I did went to the Oscar. Yeah, Best Picture nominee. Jesse Plemons robbed, by the way. Should have been nominated. Absolutely, I agree. Insane. Robbed. Justice for Jesse Plemons. Justice for Plemons. And more recently, Tony, the Anthony Bourdain biopic, where you have scenes with Antonio Banderas.

3:09Another insane thing. I don't really know if any of that does justice to who you are and what your place is in the culture, but we're here to figure that out. So Stavros, welcome to One More Question. Thank you. Thank you for having me, Zach. I was saying to you before we started, I am genuinely intimidated. I've done a couple of these already. Little Oscar winners who are extremely comfortable on camera. Now I'm with the podcast. Now you're here in the mud with me. Yeah, exactly. Honestly, culture has degraded so much that famous people have to podcast. These are the sewers of entertainment, which I have risen out of.

3:45I'm basically the toxic Avenger of entertainment. and now even like GQ has to do everyone it was like once smartless happened that was like the canary in the coal mine was like yeah yeah a lot of these motherfuckers are gonna start podcasting this I can't believe it's the only profitable part of show business but I know and here we are I feel like I'm gonna be too sincere and too organized for you that's okay no no I can match it listen I could you give me whatever you be the bass I'll solo over it no matter what you're going with you know what i'm saying i can i can catch up to your rhythm normally this would be an insane place to start but it's where you start your special more or less which is with your body you basically say in the special like the first i don't know two minutes where you're like i needed a cortisone shot in my back to be here yeah i'm taking steroids for my voice yeah how are you feeling today uh pretty bad yeah my body's just crumbling dude i mean i'm better than i was at the special but that was like that was the nadir of my I mean this whole year's been my health's been insane I threw my back out right before tires started the week before I like was deadlifting which feels unfair to have a like injury from trying to get healthy right and so threw my back out right before a tour and filming tires and then I broke my arm before filming uh this movie Comeback King with Judd Apatow uh and Glenn Powell and and then I had to postpone my special for it So yeah, I feel bad.

5:13It's kind of been nonstop since the special. We turned around like six weeks because I wanted to keep the same date as when I had before I broke my arm. So it's been like a really insane sprint to get everything done. But yeah, it's bad. I'm trying to stop doing drugs and eating like shit all the time because that's the best way to get through stress for me. So yeah. How's that going for you, the stopping doing drugs? I tried. I tried in the middle of like, cause I was like, all right, we shot the special. now I'm my work is done and then no I still you know you have to edit it you have to you know all this other do this kind of stuff which I'm happy to do but you know I want people to find out about it so you have to like promote it and do all this other shit so uh I tried and then my back hurt and then I couldn't sleep I tried to basically stop taking it's really pathetic I'm addicted to edibles like it's it's so funny to be like they are the like drugs for children yeah like you see that's a whole other thing which is like the way we do drugs now is like gummy bears which is like what a pathetic infantilized generation millennials are i'm addicted to those i take two men i take a handful of candy that fucks you up every night and i tried to stop and i couldn't sleep and my pt was like for my back i go to pt three times a week and he was like hey is something different with your sleep and i was like yeah man i'm like i'm trying to stop smoking weed and he was just like legally i can't tell you to do anything but he was like i wouldn't do anything that disrupts your sleep right now.

6:37So a doctor told me to keep getting fucked up as far as I'm concerned. So I'm back. I've regressed. I've fully relapsed. And as long as I make it through this press run, I have three more weeks. And if I stay alive through that, I think I can fix my whole life. Okay. But only after that. Not today. Not during. I have no ability to multitask. If I'm being successful, I am dying. I see every time I succeed, it's like I'm trading part of my life force for this success. It's purely transactional to me. That's such a grim thing to say. That's what has happened to me. The two most successful years of my life easily shaved four to five years over my total life, I would have to say.

7:16Is that a trade that you accept? No. If I had known about it ahead of time, no. But isn't that like the classic, this is Aesop's Fable shit. Yeah, yeah. It's like you get everything you want and it kills you. You know what I mean? It's like you should have been happier with a more modest life. There is a very, again, and same thing to bring up with someone who's basically stranger to me but there's a joke about this in your special where you're like a time not that long ago i was going to bed and i didn't know if i would wake up in the morning yeah yeah yeah it was i phrased it more funny than that it was really sad when you said it yeah that's what i do i say fucked up shit when people laugh are you familiar with the concept of stand-up comedy yeah i'm trying to find humor in the darkest moments of my life.

8:02Yeah, it was my job to take all the humor out of it. It's, yeah, there were definitely, the first, like, taste of mainstream success I had was probably, like, I forget the year, maybe it was, like, it was after the pandemic, maybe 23 or 22, either way, it was my first theater tour, and during that, I got a Netflix special, like, I was told I could do it. I also, because I wanted to act, I wrote an indie movie, and we were shooting the movie. So in that year, I did a theater tour, shot my first Netflix special, second special overall, did an indie movie. We shot season one of Tires and I started Stabi's World that year.

8:39And that was just all great stuff, right? But that theater tour came out of nowhere. I've been a club comic my whole life. I've always liked working clubs. I just never thought I'd be a theater act. That all was happening in a way, I think it was all the crowd work clips. It was like, that was going so crazy that it was bringing like a whole new audience of people who didn't know me from anything else. I wasn't prepared for that. I wasn't prepared for that workload. I wasn't prepared to do that many things. And I had no guardrails back then. And it was also like off the pandemic a little bit. It was like, leave your house and just go get fucked up, do all the fun stuff you haven't been able to do.

9:10And it was just bad timing. It was like, you're handed everything. It was like both celebratory and stressful, which is the perfect, like, it's a perfect storm to just be a complete, just get, just completely given to your vices. And so, yeah, that year it was like, I was just taking so much. I was just like eating like shit, getting high, you know, a couple pills mixed in, a little drink. I wasn't really, I'm never really a drinking guy to get through it, but also because I had a good time doing it. And I was like, damn, like, it's kind of hard to breathe right now. You know, like, it's like, I hope the CPAP, I hope if somebody unplugs the CPAP, shit's going bad in this, in this Marriott, in this courtyard Marriott.

9:51You know, like, so, yeah, there were times where I thought that for sure. Yeah, I mean, again, not to take comedy literally, but you joke about hitting rock bottom, except rock bottom is, I think it was acid, ribeye, fuck a stranger every day. Yes, try and fuck a stranger every day. I didn't always work, but yes. That doesn't sound like rock bottom to me. That's what's funny about it. It shouldn't be rock bottom. That's, I, the joke, kind of the overarching joke of that is like, what's going to kill me is having too much fun. Yeah. And like, no one, that's not really sympathetic. Yeah. You know what I mean?

10:22It's like, yeah, all of those things are like, do you deserve to die if you live that luxuriously? You know what I mean? It's kind of like the end of The Witch. It's like, would you like to live deliciously? Like, I was living deliciously. And you die if you do that too much. Well, there is a fascinating thread that I think runs through a lot of your work. On the one hand, it's like, I have the best life ever. And on the other hand, and this is another sort of special joke, I can't keep a gun in the house because I might shoot myself. Yeah. You're really highlighting the stuff to make me sound suicidal.

10:56That's the one joke about killing myself, Zach. Yeah, I was like, but there is an interest. I'm curious how those two things interact. I mean, it's not that, that doesn't seem that weird to me. You know, it's like, I mean, to want to have this kind of weird life, something's wrong with your head. Like, you have to be mentally ill to want to do this, right? Like, I was always like a little kid who loved attention. you know I have some kind of learning disability where it's like I can't focus on anything but when I lock into shit I'm really in the zone and I think the classic mix to make an artist you have to be a narcissist you have to believe in yourself so fucking much and you also have to think you're a piece of shit and I think I had the classic like over doting immigrant mother like a caricature of like a like my friends would come over just to like pick me up for the movies and she would flag them down and make them wait while she made brownies.

11:49You know what I mean? Like the sweetest little Greek lady of all time. And my dad, who was just like very charismatic, very funny. I get a lot of stuff from him, but he also was just like, he was a lot harder. He was a lot sort of like, I felt a lot of pressure from him. And there was just kind of like the classic, like your mom thinks you can do anything you want. Your dad thinks like you can only do, so it doesn't really believe in you. And then you throw in like body image stuff. You throw in everything else that other people deal with. And I think I noticed this in a lot of people, who do stand-up, who do other creative stuff.

12:18You have to think you're super talented to want to do this, but you also have to think you suck and you're a piece of shit to keep trying to improve, right? And then if everything starts going good, I just think everything in my career has been turned up and in my life so much that it's like those two things, the logical conclusion is my life's awesome and I want to kill myself at the same time. You know, when everything's cooking. And you were like joking about this CPAP machine but the litany of stuff that like you're dealing with is long it's like you're like sleep apnea totally zep bound zep bound yeah like food stuff drugs like it's a it's a lot yeah no i guess it is i mean sometimes i'm like damn i can't believe i did this because it's like i couldn't walk like um we put out a tour documentary to go along with the to go along with the special and in january when i threw my back out um i was it was right before i was doing some shows in like tampa in In Florida I was doing the casinos, shout out to the Hard Rock Casino in Tampa and Miami.

13:19And we have video of it. I could not walk to the stage without taking a break. Like before the cortisone shots kicked in, my first scenes in tires, it's actually the episode, I'm in the van and I actually, this is what a piece of shit I am. I was like jumping and doing shit, my back was so fucked up. But that episode, if we weren't shooting, I was laying on the floor flat. Like I just could not move at all. And when I got into position in that like little chair in that van, I was like, guys, I ain't moving for the rest of the day. We got to shoot all my stuff now. And I just could not, you know, it was it sucked.

13:53But it was just one of those things where you're like, well, what are you going to do? This the production is not about you. So many people came together to make this happen. Your friends, particularly tires. It's like these are my friends. Right. I don't want to let like Shane just texted me one day to do something that I thought was a YouTube series. and it changed my and just being like yeah sounds fun i'll fucking come to westchester for four days and fuck around totally changed my life right i don't want to let those guys down so it's like you're powering through and then breaking your arm i just you know comeback king which comes out in february that whole movie i had a broken arm so i don't even i might have fucking this might be the last time i'm in a movie i might be in that movie just wincing you know what i mean like i just had to pretend it wasn't broken which is insane but again this is a like whatever 30 million dollar production you can't just change this shit that's what that's the other thing you learn is that you think is the more successful you get like the more space you get to do stuff the more whatever but it's like actually the stuff you're doing more and more is riding on it everything's riding yeah everything is kind of everything heightens um and even though there's more resources there's less shots at it like that's kind of how i felt about my special too where first time we had to because i broke my arm and the second time i had lost my voice two weeks prior to that completely And it was starting to come back with all the stress.

15:06I was starting to lose it. And I felt really bad. Like, I really wasn't. I don't think those are the best shows of that tour, right? Like, I think those are somewhere, you know, I think they're good. They're good. And we did four shows for a reason. And I still, I really believe in the special. But in a perfect world, I would have just waited a week. If one more week, that's, I think my performance is way better. And I don't need to be on steroids to do it. But Matt Johnson directed it. He's about to do a movie in Toronto. We had already moved 8 ,000 tickets at the Lyric. We had moved them once.

15:36Baltimore, my hometown, saved me because, like, that's fucking insane. To just ask 8 ,000 people, be like, hey, guys, actually, let's do it in six weeks. That's nuts, right? Yeah. And the lyric didn't charge me. Another theater would have killed me. So that's when you realize, like, a lot of the times the cooler shit you do, it's kind of like hitting the little zone on the Death Star where you're like everything's got to go just right. And that's what the special felt like because particularly because of having Matt involved. It was like a lot had to come together. And Johnson, who also directed you and...

16:07Tony, yeah. So yeah, it was just one of those things where it was a lot, but it's like, it just has to get done. At the end of the day, it's like my dad when I was a kid tore a tendon, a ligament in his left arm and he was a carpenter and he kept working. So I could, you know, tell dick jokes with a broken arm. You know what I mean? Like it's not, at the end of the day, my job's not that hard. Yeah. Very poor setup for my next question, but I'm gonna ask it anyway. which is you've been sort of very upfront about you know your demons and we already talked about some of them but I'm kind of curious about how you're dealing with what I would say is probably the newest demon in your life which is fame the success that you're talking about yeah I I really don't like it to be honest with you like I just it's fine it's cool but I see fame as like I want to do a lot of cool shit right I do love movies I I honestly I never imagined that I would have this career this quickly like yorgos lantimos i owe him so much like i got bailed out by a couple random texts from more talented guys right like yorgo just saying i want that guy crazy um and i think like my goal when i made that you're good in the movie i appreciate it but like i i think i am good don't get me wrong but where the fuck did he find yorgo's watching tires season one is that where he fucking found me what i hadn't done shit you know what i mean like did he watch let's start a cult i don't think so but the reason i did let's start a cult was because i was like hopefully one day i could be just in the character actor stable of a great director right like what i wanted to get to was like maybe in 10 years i could be you know i could i could you know be like like how the coen brothers have their repertory guys you know what i mean like i could be palito you know what I could be Dennis Franz in early De Palma stuff.

17:57I was hoping one day I could be that guy. And I got that opportunity before I got to do a broad comedy, which I couldn't understand. To be able to do that kind of stuff, you kind of have to be famous. You kind of have to, especially now where the entire industry has become sort of a bringer. Like when you first start comedy, the shows you go are like, hey, you can do it, but you have to bring five people. Now it's like, hey, you got to bring a million Instagram followers if you're going to be. You have to keep being famous. you can't just be good at something anymore. That's done. That's actually crazy.

18:25It sucks. It sucks. Yeah. I mean, that's how I feel about standup. I love standup, but I feel like it's the thing I have to trick people into coming to because they see me podcasting, acting. They see a clip go viral, whatever. In general, that's how the entertainment industry feels now. It's like you will, you have to quietly work on your art and get better at everything while also being famous because nobody has any infrastructure anymore. and everybody expects you to do everything. And so you kind of have to keep getting famous because I want to keep making movies. I want to keep doing standup specials.

18:58I want to tour till I die. I love standup. I want to do it in a way that doesn't, you know, a healthier and I want to do it a little travel less, but I want to do standup until I die, whatever. To do that, you just kind of have to have fans and be famous, but I see it as like, you know, if you work at a nuclear reactor, you got to put a suit on so it doesn't get to you, right? Yeah. And that's how I feel about fame is like, you got to protect, you got to remember you're just, you're not, you're nobody. You're not some fucking big shot just because like people you don't meet offer to go do stuff for.

19:28Like somebody's here, her job is to bring my water if I'm thirsty. That's fucked up. You know what I mean? Like I should, like that's just how this works. And it's like, you have to remember like, that's just logistical. You're not more important because you're doing that. It just makes this go faster. And I think that can get to your head if you're famous. Well, and also it's like, nobody likes to talk about this because it sounds like you're complaining. but also the fabric of your daily life, I'm sure. It's just deeply weird where you're walking through an airport or whatever. Again, it's not cool to talk about, but it's also, I think if people haven't experienced it or been around it, it actually is.

20:02It is. Yeah, it can fuck a day up. I mean, look, again, my perspective is other people's workplace hazard is getting black lung. My workplace hazard is a bunch of guys that look like me stop me when I go get bagels. You know what I mean? And most of the time, I actually really like it. The only time it's tough is if you're having, like, a bad day. Like, I remember one time I had just made an attempt to get this girl back, right? Like, we were talking. She had started dating somebody. It was fresh. And I was like, I think I might have a little window here to get back in. Maybe I can grab the cheese before the trap hits me, you know?

20:36And I gave it my all. You know, we're getting oysters. I'm like, picked a beautiful restaurant. I'm like, making my pitch. I'm like, let's be together, baby. I fucked up so bad. she hits me with a no absolutely not are you out of your fucking mind i tried to do this you're just a piece of shit who can't accept love until it's gone and that fucked me up and i'm like you know walking home like trying to keep it together some guy's like stop let's get a my fucking boy flacco and i'm like come on i'm fucking crying dude i just i'm heartbroken with a belly full of oysters and i gotta fucking make a video for your friend you want me to set the fantasy football order of your draft this year right now dude I can't do that for you man so that's the only time it's a problem but most of the time like I said I live a hysterical life on a regular day if I got to say hi to a couple people that's nice that's I actually like it you know

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22:39Is there a moment you noticed when it kind of like really flipped? Like I was on a plane a week or two ago watching like an Eagles preseason game with the sound off. Oh yeah. And then I just like saw you pop up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, I don't think this would have happened even like two years ago. No, no, no. I mean, honestly, the moment things were like different, it's so funny because again, fame has changed so much. There was never a thing, right? If anything, it was when I started posting reels and TikToks of crowd work. That's so funny. It really was, dude. It was like, I remember a specific time I was in Vegas doing a short film.

23:15I was like, again, I'm just trying to learn how to act. So I was like, fuck it, yeah, I'll come to Vegas. And my buddy, Ben O 'Brien, was with me. They're my creative producer. We've been friends since Baltimore. An incredibly talented person. I love Ben so much. in Vegas where it's like a tourist destination a lot of different people people just kept coming up to me and you know I had had the odd come town fan I'd had the odd stand-up fan like super fan come and whatever but it would be like a person a day maybe and we were like in Vegas and it was just like so many people and like not weird little internet dwellers right it was like older Latino couples like a nice a nice you know like a nice professional woman in a you know like a Hillary Clinton pantsuit you know what I mean it's like I remember Ben being like that that was just like a nice lady now I feel like you have to kind of be famous in a hundred different ways yeah and with everything there was another layer right like begonia happened different types of people started coming up to me you know what I mean like people that read the New Yorker started coming up to me after that you know what I'm saying like and it was like every single time when I when I like started doing part of my take it was like you know a lot of barstool bros will come up will come up to me and it's like it's just every single thing you do kind of layers an extra thing on but the one thing that changed my life hilariously was putting up the part of my crowd work that I that I saw as like refuse you know what I mean that I saw as like curds after I'm trying to make milk or whatever and it's like the shit floating to the top maybe cheese I don't really know it's i'm following yeah you got it but the stuff that i would throw out at pasta water basically that's what i look at this crowd work it's like people like whoa pasta water is fucking good fuck pasta you know what i mean and so that's what did it it was short form it was the algorithm hitting at the right time dude truly both amazing and kind of haunting in some way it is yeah and then all of a sudden you're in an academy award nominated film so you're on set doing scenes with jesse plemons emma stone is presumably there she's hanging yep uh do you feel like he belonged going into it i was really nervous and no but they legitimately were so cool yeah that it was and and that set felt closer to an indie than every other movie i've done like even tires felt like more of a production yeah then and we shoot that at like our friends dads my office in the show is steve gerbin's father's real office you know and so begonia felt they built that house right it was real they dug out the basement they didn't use sets it was a real house there were no trailers you just kind of everybody had a had a room in the house and we all had lunch we had lunch at the table where he like she you know she stabs him with the fork like we that porch we would hang out all the time and so it felt like just hanging out and it is really funny because clemens and stone have been in my life forever as i mean jesse was literally in fucking like mike Like I remember seeing him when I was in middle school and Superbad was like, I was a fat loser.

26:17I was Jonah Hill's character and I was the exact eight. We're like the same. So you build these people up and you're like, these are movie stars. Then you meet them and you're like, oh, they're also 36 years old. We just say it like when I met Blake Griffin, I was like, well, this is some athlete. It's like, he's a 36 year old who happens to be one of the most impressive. And so because they were so normal and they were so chill, it felt, I felt like I belonged until Jesse started acting and then it was like, oh, like hold on, you know what I mean? Like don't let go. I felt like, it was like, you know, cliffhanger or whatever.

26:49I'm like, hold my hand, Jesse. Pull me up, I'm fucking blowing it. He was so, like when action started, I was like, I shouldn't fucking be here. But every other moment they were very nice and I felt like I belonged. And then when you do Tony, same thing. Like there's like, you got just scenes with Antonio Banderas. Banderas was like, it was surreal. I will say Tony is really special to me because it was kind of the first time I felt like, oh, they really, like, they need me for this specifically, right? Like, because Begonia, it was something I was trying for the first time, if I'm being completely honest.

27:23But what I was doing in Tony, being, like, the bully, like, I could do that. The very kind-hearted bully. Kind-hearted bully. The bully with a heart of gold, right? The, like, you know, my goal is to have the, like, blank with the heart of gold. Kind of your lane. Yeah, yeah. Exactly, dude. I want to be the scumbag with a heart of gold, the cuck with a heart of gold, the criminal with a heart of gold. I want to do all that stuff. But Tony was really special because I really felt like a true collaborator, not like I was holding on for dear life. And Matt's style, Yorgos obviously is like, he's truly a legendary figure, specifically for Greek people, culturally.

28:01And it was intimidating for my first movie to be like that. And he's not, you know, in my experience, not a very, like, talkative, showy director. Whereas Matt is like, we're kind of this, we're not the same guy, but we have such similar sensibilities. It was just like making something with a friend, even though we really only knew each other, you know, over, like, Zoom. We had talked about some other projects that never went anywhere. But that felt really special. And it kind of felt like, I felt like I was a part of something special because that whole cast was super talented. Yeah. And they were also, like, kids.

28:32It felt like kind of hanging out with, like, you know, my little cousin. Because, like, Dom and Amelia. Sure, sure. And Leo was the man. He would host, like, barbecues at his, you know, house every weekend. So it was kind of like spring break. And movies are like a dream of yours. This is, like, something you want to do. It's beyond a dream, dude. My dream was to make$80 ,000 a year before taxes doing, like, B-level comedy clubs. This is, like, something I couldn't even fathom. So, yeah, it's like. But you are in a funny position where a lot of people, like, desperately trying to do it. Yeah. You're successful in other worlds.

29:04You don't have to be six on the call sheet, get paid nothing, wait around all day. You don't actually have to do that. No, no, no. And you could argue, I don't know if I'm going to do it much longer. It's fucking annoying, right? There are annoying parts of it. But I'm insanely lucky because I can pick stuff that just really is artistically interesting to me. It's selfish, right? But what's the point of making it if you can't live your most insane dreams, right? Help your family out and then get to do whatever you want. I do feel bad for my actor friends because it's a hard job. You wait around.