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Hello, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news.
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Let's see how much voice I have left. And this
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is the third show. What are these I'm doing? And
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I burned out my voice on number one. Michael Che
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is sharing his thoughts about working on Saturday Night Live.
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He told Trevor Noah, SNL is such a vulnerable place
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for everybody. For us, we work there. We're there all
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the time. We're comfortable. But he said he's always fielding
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questions about who's the worst and who's the best celebrity host.
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Che said it's really not fair to judge somebody based
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on their time there. They're there for a week. It's scary.
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It's fast. He says SNL is unique. There's no way
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to prepare for it unless you just do it all
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the time. Che said it's hard to trust the process
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as an outsider, especially if you don't do comedy at all.
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A lot of times people, they have a rough go
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because it's not because they're bad people, just because it's
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a scary situation. There's a lot of people that after
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the show, they're like, man, thank you so much. Or man,
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that was crazy. You guys do this every week. They're
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shocked by what the process is. It is not a
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natural process. They're sleep deprived. I get it. Che offered
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insight into what a typical week is like from the
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host perspective. On Monday, they're meeting all these people and
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getting shown around. Tuesday, they get pitched ideas. Everybody's telling
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you what they're actually working on. Then you go to
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dinner with a couple of cast members and Lorne Michaels.
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On Wednesday, the cast does a table read. It's like
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a seven or eight hour day, just reading like 40 sketches,
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some bad ones, some great ones, whatever. That's when they
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decide what makes it onto the show. On Thursday, there
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are rewrites and rehearsal. Pre-taped sketches happen on Friday during
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the day and the night, and it goes very late.
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And on show day, there's a run-through rehearsal before the
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dress rehearsal and finally a live show, Che said. So
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the blitzkrieg of that week, you're going to be frantic.
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I always say it feels like we're planning someone else's
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wedding every time because this is a very special day
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for them, but we're coming back. For them, this is
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their moment. This means everything. You're trying to make it
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as special as possible for them and as comfortable... They're
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not bad people. They want this to work. I understand
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the stress of that. It's why I don't come to
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crap on people when they're not good. I'm paraphrasing there.
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Drewski is your host tonight. Jimmy Carr was on Joe
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Rogan promoting his book on jokes. This was interesting. Carr
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said comedy has a natural rhythm of about 92 beats
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a minute. That's a comfortable walking place with a laugh
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word about every two and a half seconds, and the
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job is to get the crowd locked into it. I
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found this really interesting, and Carr was talking about Hedberg
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and even said that Hedberg's rhythm was very atypical and
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that a hack, if they keep the 92 beats a
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minute thing, can get laughs, whereas Hedberg would have variable
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speeds and they got candid about the stuff that Hedberg
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was into on the side, how that affected Mitch's performance.
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Jimmy Carr said, pound for pound, Mitch Hedberg was the
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best joke writer of the last 30 years, but his
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pacing was inconsistent, which is worse than being consistently fast
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or slow. So Hedberg killed half the time and died
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half the time, and a hack with great rhythm would
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beat him almost every night. Jimmy Carr wishes somebody had
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pulled Mitch Hedberg aside and told him to keep the
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same cadence. Wow. Nikki Glaser was doing some press for
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her current tour. She said, I was so fearless when
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I started out, I would just say anything. And I'm
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glad I'm not that way anymore because I think there's
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some harm in that. I would just be trying to
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make jokes and I didn't care who it hurt because
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I was just trying to get to the punchline. I've
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had to be more thoughtful about the jokes I do
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now to get away with saying the things I want
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to say. So what you're saying is you did the
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Tom Brady roast and then made it to another level
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of showbiz and now you're dialing it back. Is that
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what you're saying? Because that's what I'm reading here. Nikki
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Glaser said, I think my friends would describe me as
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maybe one of the least confident people they know, just personally,
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how I feel about myself. But when I'm on stage...
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It tricks me and my friends and my family into
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being like, whoa, that girl's so confident. It's not an act.
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It just comes naturally. It's harder and harder. The more
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attention you get to say fearless things, when you get bigger,
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that's when you need to pull it back a little
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bit because now you're for the masses and they can
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burn that witch. I do have a fear of coming
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off as unlikable. I think that's my whole pursuit in comedy,
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to feel liked and to feel like I'm a good person.
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Sometimes there's definitely a dark side of me that's probably
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not a good person and has bad thoughts like we
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all do, and I'm scared sometimes to reveal that. That's
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always the most interesting material. The best feeling in comedy...
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is when you're saying something that you're like, there's no
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way I could say that, and then you find a
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way to finally, with a crowd, make it work, where
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they're all laughing at something that's so inappropriate. That's the
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greatest feeling in the world, and that's what I'm always
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trying to achieve. Jerry Seinfeld mentioned his favorite four episodes
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of the sitcom Seinfeld, which starred Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld.
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Jerry said, okay, my four, not in chronological order, and
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I actually gave this a little thought. His top four
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are The Contest, The Soup Nazi, The Merv Griffin Show
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and The Marine Biologist. Pretty good list, Jerry said. The
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contest doesn't require an explanation. The Soup Nazi doesn't either.
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Just the idea of the word Nazi in an episode.
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It's a Jewish show. It's just such a great, fun
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thing to do. The Marine Biologist, that was the best
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story tie-in finish to an episode we ever did. Jason's
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speech at the end makes that. And The Merv Griffin Show,
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because Kramer finds the Merv Griffin set in a dumpster
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and sets it up in his apartment. So just based
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on that one sentence, enough said. Missing the top four,
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Jerry said, I kind of went back and forth because
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I really liked The Boyfriend. That's the one with Keith Hernandez.
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Fans were upset. One fan said Festivus. Another said Jerry
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doesn't know funny, sadly. So you're saying Jerry Seinfeld doesn't
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know funny, and Jerry Seinfeld doesn't know which episodes of
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Seinfeld were funny. Is that your premise, internet commenter? Jerry
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doesn't know funny, sadly. The comeback is by far the
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greatest episode ever. Merv Griffin was funny, but his other
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four were weak. See, now I think the Merv was
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the worst of the ones on Jerry's list. It's all subjective, folks.
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Bert Kreischer was on Fox News Digital. He was talking
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about food and laughter and stuff. And here is Bert
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Kreischer to save my voice.
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I think it's how most people relate to family. I
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think that is, you know, I think comedy, food, and
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I would argue booze are how most families connect. It's
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the ingredients to making sure it lubricates a great family moment.
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And I think that people identify with it and it
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relaxes them and Having someone cook for you, and that's
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what I do when something's burning. Having someone cook for
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you is kind of enjoyable. It loosens you up. I mean,
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I know for a fact that out of all the
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podcasts I do, something's burning gets the best conversation going.
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And I think it's because I'm cooking for them. And
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they see that I'm occupied. And they know that they
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feel free to talk and that I'm listening. And then
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we have a few cocktails. And that's the interviews that
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have been the most... Revealing and the funnest for me.
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I will say this um Growing up we had a
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family dinner Once a week probably maybe twice a week
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it would be when my uncles would come over and
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my dad would sit at the head of the table
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my mom would cook or we'd and I And those
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dinners are the ones I remember the most. I think
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most people, probably, especially with a big family or in
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a family, they're hustling and they're trying to get everyone's
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doing homework and this and that. And we still, to
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this day, my daughters are 22 and 20. We all,
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we had dinner. They were home for a month and
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we had dinner every night. My wife was like, girls,
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what are we doing for dinner? What are we doing
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for dinner? And every night Leanne would say, Georgia favorite
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part of the day. And, and I think, If you're
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a family and you're hearing this or reading this or
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seeing this and you're not doing it, just it should
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remind you that that is what family is about.
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Hugh Hefner's widow, Crystal Harris, name dropped a comedian. She
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claimed was a frequent visitor at the Playboy Mansion. Harris
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on a podcast said, John Lovitz, you were Playboy Mansion's
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number one customer. You were like one of the biggest
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pervs there. She said Lovitz was up there all the
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time and his eyes would go front to back. All
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the women that walked through the door and at the parties,
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he'd be the lurker. And I remember him every time,
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every party. John Lovitz reacted to this. He told Page Six,
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anytime someone tells me I'm number one, it's a compliment.
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I love it. He said Hugh Hefner was one of
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the nicest, most generous people I've ever met. And all
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his friends know it. That's all I have to say
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about that. Vulture has their list of comedians you should
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know and will know, and Ron Taylor is one of them.
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You know him from the Kevin Hart Netflix Funny AF show.
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After earning a little money from stand-up in Detroit in
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the early 2010s, Taylor bought a van, drove to L.A.,
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and spent the next several years living in that van,
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working odd jobs, and writing stand-up material. He worked as
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a doorman at the Comedy Store. I almost said the
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store as if I hung out there. At the Comedy Store.
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And filmed videos where he invited his friends over for
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van-cooked meals. Love to know what those are. And in
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the process, developed what became his signature style of cheerful,
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vintage suaveness. That's laconic, but not withholding. Good sentence there.
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In 2018, Taylor was voted a Just for Laughs new face.
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In 2024, he released his special on Veeps called Avalanche.
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Two quick questions with Ron Taylor. Question number one. What
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non-comedy skill do you possess that you're most proud of?
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Ron said, I don't know how to call it a skill,
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but I do like to cook. I like building stuff
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in high school and had planned to do it in college,
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but all the math made my head hurt. Since then,
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I went to theater arts to do stand-up. The desire
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to build things was still there, though. I scratched that
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itch with cooking and making food. When you build something,
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you know you did it right. When it works properly
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in cooking, you know you did it right. Would it
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taste good? Question number two. If you taught a comedy class,
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what's the most crucial lesson you'd want your students to learn?
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Ron said, I'd want students to understand timing. Timing is
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one of the biggest things to me in comedy. Everybody
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wants to be fast, but most times the big laughs
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come from coming in at the right time as opposed
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to coming in quickly. A lot of us comics go
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too fast and step on laughs or rush to get
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in a line. Not wanting to miss the moment, if
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you wait and pay attention, the moment will come back
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and you can set up the moment again for an
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even better moment. You can get in 30 minutes of
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laughs with 15 minutes of jokes. And that is your
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comedy news for today. I need a drink. My voice
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is shot. See you tomorrow.