2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer

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Patrice O’Neal Destroyed Me | 2 Bears, 1 Cave

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Showtime Special, Party Bus, & Patrice's Funeral

At 46:36 · chapter starts 41:28

Bert is riding high — TV show, money, Hollywood apartment — and rents a party bus to take his friends to watch Patrice tape his Showtime special at the Brea Improv alongside Gary Goldman and another Jim Brewer nobody can look up. He warns everyone they won't like Patrice, because he's not friends with him — or so he tells them. Patrice sabotages the first taping with material that isn't his best. After the show, at the Embassy Suites after-party, Patrice pulls Bert aside and asks what he's doing there. Bert says he came to see Patrice do stand-up. Patrice says: 'Because we're friends.' Bert, not walking into the trap, says yes. And Patrice sits next to him all night, almost proud. The confirmation of friendship comes later: while shooting Bert the Conqueror in San Antonio, a producer rushes in to show Bert a tweet. Patrice has publicly called Bert 'a real G in the game of comedy' and expressed pride in his success. It was so unlike Patrice that Bert knew immediately it was genuine. Six months later, Patrice had a stroke.

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Patrice's Tweet and the Stroke

Patrice O’Neal Destroyed Me | 2 Bears, 1 Cave · Jun 15, 2026 Society & Culture

While shooting Bert the Conqueror in San Antonio, Bert learned that Patrice O'Neal had publicly tweeted his pride in Bert's success. The tweet was so unlike Patrice — warm, direct, calling Bert a 'real G in the game of comedy' — that it confirmed they were actually friends. Then, six months later, Patrice had a stroke.

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Why Bert Didn't Go to Patrice's Funeral

Patrice O’Neal Destroyed Me | 2 Bears, 1 Cave · Jun 15, 2026 Society & Culture

The flight to Patrice O'Neal's funeral in New York cost $900. Bert didn't go. He could hear Patrice's voice saying he wouldn't pay $900 to go to Bert's funeral either — and going anyway just to meet Chris Rock would have been exactly what Patrice accused him of all along. So he stayed home.

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