Featured: Dan Bublitz Jr., Pete Davidson, Joe Coy, Taylor Swift, Jim Brewer
What’s in This Episode
- Has crowd work ruined the live stand-up experience
- Audience behavior changes post-pandemic
- Comedians posting crowd work clips for social media content
- Pete Davidson walking off stage after heckling
- Joe Coy’s Taylor Swift joke at the Golden Globes
- Authenticity of crowd work and planted hecklers in comedy
- Comedian performance strategy when jokes aren’t landing
Questions Answered in This Episode
Has crowd work ruined stand-up comedy?
According to Dan Bublitz Jr., crowd work clips on social media have opened a ‘Pandora’s box’ by encouraging audiences to come to shows hoping to be part of a viral moment, while also discouraging people from sitting in front rows out of fear of being targeted by comedians.
What happened with Pete Davidson getting heckled?
Pete Davidson walked off stage when audience members kept yelling out ‘Ariana Grande’ during his set, and the general audience reaction was supportive of him leaving rather than upset.
What did Joe Coy say about Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes?
Joe Coy made a joke about the Golden Globes having ‘fewer camera shots of Taylor Swift’ compared to the NFL, but struggled with the delivery, laughing and fumbling through it, and Taylor Swift’s cold reaction didn’t help the joke land.
Are comedians using planted hecklers for crowd work clips?
Dan Bublitz Jr. believes some comedians use planted hecklers to generate social media content, which he considers inauthentic compared to genuine audience interactions.
How have audiences changed since the pandemic?
According to the discussion, audiences have gotten worse post-pandemic, partly because comedians have incentivized bad behavior by posting crowd work clips that make audiences want to act out for viral moments.
What’s the best strategy when a comedian’s jokes aren’t landing?
Dan Bublitz Jr. suggests changing up the order of your set to jokes you know will work rather than saving them, doing an audible to win the audience back instead of sticking to your planned setlist.
Full Transcript
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Caloroga Shark Media. Today on this program a conversation with comedian Dan Boobletz Junior. We talked about the industry, Pete Davison’s situation, Seinfeld Mulaney, and whether or not Dan will have his own celebrity bourbon. We’ll get into that. And I’m laughing here.
This is actually take five. I got up this morning and I’m like, I need to do an intro real quick, and I haven’t had my coffee yet. Here’s Dan. I just recorded Friday’s episode and I named check you. I was doing a Pete Davidson’s story about him getting heckled night.
I told the listeners, I’m going to ask Dan about this the question Dan has crowd work ruined stand up comedy? Okay, so I do have some feelings about this. I’ve seen two things, two observations that I have seen since all these crowd clips have been going on, like TikTok and ig reels, and that is one, people don’t want to sit up front anymore in a comedy show. But the other side of it is they do want to sit up front, hoping that they’ll be part of the show, that they’ll be part of that viral clip. That’s worse.
It is worse. It is. But yeah, so that’s one thing I’ve noticed, like because I produce shows too, and a lot of times, you know, we’re just doing shows like in breweries or whatever, so it’s just open seating, and people will not sit up front if they can get away with it, Like they’ll come in if the room is completely empty. They always go to the back. They don’t want to sit up front because they’re afraid the comics are going to talk to them.
I mean yeah, even back in the day, I never wanted to sit in the front either. I get it. It’s kind of just be annoying. Oh absolutely. I mean I haven’t experienced it a ton myself, but you can tell when people are coming in if they’re the kind of people that are trying to be part of the show, because they’re already act in a fool before the show even starts, and it’s just awful.
Yeah. So parably, Pete Davidson was trying to just do a show and people kept yelling out Ariana Grande and he walked off. Oh wow. But the reactions, at least what the newspapers are capturing on Reddit was good for you Pete like people aren’t mad that he walked off. I feel like the vibe I’m getting is that audiences have gotten worse somehow post pandemic.
I think so a little bit. I mean it again, I contribute some of this to the crowd work clips too, Like we’ve kind of opened a Pandora’s box with it, you know, because comics don’t want to post their material because you know, they feel like they’re birding it or whatever, so they’ll try to get these crowd work clips so they have content to put out. And yeah, and because of that, we’ve opened this weird you know, almost like we’ve given them permission to come be this way at shows. So it’s kind of, in a way, it’s kind of our own faults as comedians for doing that. Are the comedians that are posting the crowd work clips.
I try not to do crowd work myself because I’m awful at it. Well, there’s also there’s at least one guy a couple guys out there who are comedian slams Heckler for blah blah blah, and all that crowd work maybe ain’t the most authentic. Oh absolutely, and you get that too. I feel like now, especially now that crowd work clips and comedians are doing a lot of it, it just seems like there’s a lot of comedians and I’m like, I go to a lot of comedy shows, and yes, hecklers happen, but sometimes I’m like, really, you get heckled every time you have a show. Come on fine with a plant.
So this is not your style. But if you didn’t act and you put me in the audience as a plant and I yelled out, you know, hey, your glasses look dumb, and then you and I start having an argument and I come up and rush the stage, and you know, whatever the bit is, that’s fun. I’ve seen that execute well. But for me to just sit in the audience and go like, you know, hey, nice glasses just so you can slam me for a cheap joke, it’s lame. Oh absolutely, that’s funny that The way you described that as the playant reminded me of your favorite actors movie Happy Gilmore, when Shooter mcgaver sends in the plant to harass him.
The community on the Facebook group Daily Comedy News Podcast Group, it’s been really good. Everybody’s kind of starting to come together and cross pollin eate. I love conversations that don’t involve me at all. I like having the community. So one of the more known listeners out there is Scott Beckett.
So just to ruin Scott’s day, let me ask you that Joe Coy famous insult comic one time at the Golden Globes he went after Taylor Swift. Let me play the clip for you just in case you haven’t heard it before. As you know, we came on after a football doubleheader. The big difference between the Golden Globes and the NFL. On the Golden Globes, we have fewer climber shots of Taylor Swift.
So what do you do this, Joe Coy? Oh, man, I tell you he shouldn’t be insulting America sweetheart, because that backfired. I think it’s that bet is kind of funny, but also I kind of agree with Scott. It’s a little you can really beat a joke down, So but I also love your commitment to it. I come from the belief of everything has a cycle.
It’s funny and then it becomes not funny at all, and I think that’s where some of the audience got.
And then another segment of the audience is with me that I’ve beaten it down …
That’s where I am with it, yep, because you kind of for it. Oh yeah, absolutely, And I can appreciate that. The joke itself though, I think it’s kind of funny because if you listen to the clip, he couldn’t even tell the joke, like he started laughing, and I feel like that threw off the delivery of the joke because as he was getting ready to say camera he starts to kind of laugh and he was trying to hold it together and is Gloden globes Yeah, yeah, like he was fumbling over his I was almost like he was too nervous to do it. But I don’t know. I feel like if he would have delivered it without those little fumbles, it probably would have been fine.
And also, you know, putting the bit aside, as I’ve said on the pod, if Taylor just smiles at it and goes ah hah, then it’s fine. She iced him, and I don’t think that helps. He wasn’t having a great set and I think is a good comic. I’m okay with Some people got upset and felt that he threw his writers under the bus. I thought he was just riffing, trying to save a set and explaining, like, I’ve had this job for nine days, what the hell did you want?
That was the vibe. I God, I think he was burying his writers. No, I don’t. I mean he kind of did, because he blatantly, you know, said he’d get right to stuff or whatever. But but again I would agree.
I think he was just struggling because he knew he was bombing, and he was just trying to bring it back. And that’s sometimes that happens when you’re on stage and it’s not going well, you’re just reaching for whatever. You’re trying to find that that life raft. You know, do you keep in your back pocket, like you know in ninety seconds that you just know works, that you just don’t use otherwise. No, I mean what I usually do is if I’m doing some jokes and they’re not going well, I’ll try to switch it up.
Because they do have jokes that are proven and I know will probably work. I don’t necessarily save them for just in case. I mean, at some point in my set, I’ll probably get to them, but I might change the order, you know, like I might have it planned that I’m going to do these jokes later in my set, but early on my jokes aren’t hitting. I’m gonna switch it up and I’m gonna go to this stuff that I know will work to try to win the audience back, so I’ll do an audible on the order. I remember back in the day when I worked with Jim Brewer.
I used to love watching him in front of crowds because he would look out and you could see his brain going, all right, who’s in front of me right now? I remember what time we were at the auto show and he’s like, right now, it’s dad’s with young kids, and he kind of switched off his stoner goat boy act and went into his family material, and it was just ready to watch him to see who’s in front of me? What is this group going to laugh at? And let me go there. Yeah, that’s why I think it’s important to you know, a lot of comedians probably don’t want to do this, you know, they’ll go hide in the green room or whatever.
But I feel like it’s important kind of watching as the audiences is coming in and just kind of observing, because you know, reading the room and watching the comic before you, so you can kind of get a sense of who is this audience because then if you need to adjust, you can. And you want the guy before you to do well. Right, You’re not like, oh yeah, no, no, no, I’m not saying watch yeah, yeah, you do want them to do well. I’m saying just so you can observe the audience, because then you can see what’s working what’s not when you’re watching the other comics. The other comic might be, you know, doing millennial jokes, and the audience could be boomers and they’re just not gonna connect because it’s not relatable or whatever.
But you know, you can get a pretty good read of the room the audience, so then if you need to adjust, you can do that. And that’s because that’s kind of what I do. Like, I know that some of my jokes aren’t going to work in some situations because I’m pretty nerdy. I do some nerdy material, And I know that my preferred audience is my age plus or minus about ten years. I really reached that Gen X audience.
But I can perform for all audiences, you know, and still be funny. I feel like lately i’ve been maybe it’s the amount of specials and watch them all at once. I feel like I’ve been analyzing comedy a lot more than I have in a few years. We definitely used to do this back at Serious and I’ve talked about this before. I remember seeing someone I want to say, maybe with prosine, and I felt like I could see the matrix of the premise based in fact premise exaggerated thing that never actually happened, but it’s funny callback, And I was sitting watching a set going I can see this happening.
Lately, I’ve been on a run of noticing things that sound like comedy. So I’ll just do like a and I’m not a comedian, as I always bring up on the pod, but I’ll bring up like Bob Hope style joke of like, you know, hey, just see General Johnson’s here, Yay, he probably just came for the free hot dog. Like it’s not funny, but it has the rhythm of a joke. And if I dropped that in the middle of a set and I had a proper persona that could get a laugh even though I don’t even know what that joke quote unquote meant. You’re right, and there is a rhythm to it too, And I think that’s like you said, it’s a persona or a character, because there are comics who really lean into a persona.
And you even talked about this on just the other day when you were talking about Norton. He’s, you know, very soft spoken off stage, but on stage he’s like an animal, you know, yeah, you know, he’s a nice, quiet guy. And I was very happy reading that article. I’m glad he found somebody he loves and he sounds super happy. And that’s the gym that I know.
Switching gears. What do you think of Malanie? Oh? Well, I haven’t watched his new special. I’ve heard some mixed reviews from some friends because I have a friend of mine is a big comedy fan and they watched it.
They actually went and saw Pete Davison last week too, But I haven’t watched his Dude special. But prior to that, I love his work. He’s in my top five of comedians. Anytime somebody either like who’s your favorite comedian of all time? I’m like, well, that’s a loaded question.
We have to break this down because there’s so many great comedians. I break it down into two categories. No, longer with us, still with us. George Carlin Richard Pryor are probably two of the best comedians of all time, but there are some great working comedians. For me, John Mulaney’s one of my favorites, John Mlanie, Mike Burbig, Yellow Mark Maron three of my probably tops.
Did you see Milani’s late night show? I have not. Now I’m so far behind on watching anything. It seems like I just started get trying to get caught up on Hacks season three. Hacks season three is good.
Well, I mean understandably you work nights and weekends, yes, because when the rest of us are watching TV, exactly totally get like, you know, hey, how come we’re not watching Saturday Night Live? What are you doing Saturday late night? You know? Yeah, exactly, I’m trying to be them in front of a live audience. That makes it.
I thought Molane it had a lot of early days Letterman two. As they talked about on the pod, he really needs a producer and a little bit of structure, but it was so much fun. He had a really really short Limb TV series, like I think it only had like I don’t know, maybe a couple episodes before it got canceled a Fox had come called Mulaney. Yep. It did ratings at the time like a one to six, which in twenty twenty four would get you a ten year commitment, but back in the day was an abysmal rating.
But I put that in the category of things that existed. You know, if you said to somebody today, Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if John m’laney had a sitcom on Fox pre cancellation, wouldn’t it be awesome if Louis C.K. Had a show on HBO? Imagine what a big hit that would be. And you know, these things happened and nobody cared.
Yeah, yep, absolutely and that speaking of that, that show again, and you’re right, that was another show I felt like was underrated. I thought that show that he had on HBO was better than the series he had on Fax. Like obviously he had evolved and it was still as serious. But I really like that series on HBO because they did it like a stage play. Yeah, and it had a Honeymooners kind of vibe, like if Jackie Gleason were played by Louis C.K.
It was that kind of setup, which is what he was going for. The latter show I didn’t watch a lot of because at that time, when I was at serious, I wanted to come home and get away from comedy. And I started watching the Universe because if a bunch of scientists were telling me about Saturn, I didn’t get bombed. Whereas when I would watch Louis show and I loved it, what would happen is I’d be sitting on the couch and relaxed, and Louis would talk to Jim Norton, who I’d seen earlier in the hallway, and oh yeah, I got to talk to Jim tomorrow to see if he’ll be a guest on the other show, and I got to get him a promo. And my boss is probably mad at me and that thing I didn’t do.
Now i’d be in the spiral and I’m back at work. So I actually deliberately stopped watching that show because it was stressing me out. No, I believe that one. A lot of people are always asked me because I’m a comedian. They’ll ask, you know, if a new special comes out there like did you see so and so it’s new special?
And I’m like no, because that’s work to me. I see so much live comedy. I do so much live comedy when I’m at home. If I want to watch something, I don’t want to watch a lot of stand up comedy because to me, it feels like work, even though it’s not my material. But help but not analyze like the comedic brain clicks in and I’ll be watching, you know, And I could objectively watch a comedian and see them do well and not necessarily like their material, but I can see it and understand why it’s working and why the crowd likes what they’re doing.
And that’s what happens when I watch stand up. I just started analyzing. I’m like, oh, I see what they did there. Oh that was a pretty good call back. Oh they just keep building this callback or you know or whatever it is.
So I don’t watch a lot of stand up in my free time. I gravitate towards, you know, more comedy type shows. So for the listeners, Dan just explained what I’ve described in the past is what I call the Emperor of rome syndrome. I do that even though not a comic, never been a comic, but I’ve hung out in the back of the room and same thing. Oh good callback, good setup.
I see what he’s doing here. Okay, Oh that joke was better than the audience or I can’t believe they laugh at that one. I totally hear you. On the analysis last weekend over Memorial the weekend, there were things I could have watched, like Rachel, and I was like, I just I needed a break from just life and needed to turn my brain off. And I’m like, I want to watch Planet of the Apes.
I don’t want to think about this at all, because the same thing if I put Rachel on, I immediately start going, oh is this one of the top twenty specials of twenty twenty four? When I say in the podcast, let me take some notes, let me put on Facebook that I’m watching a comedy special, so the people engage with me, and like, sometimes you just got to get it away from it. Yep. Absolutely, And like I said, I see so much live comedy too, because even you know, like last night, for example, I co produced some shows here in Loveland, Colorado, where I live. I wasn’t on the show, but we had a show last night, so I was there, you know, helping with set up, tear down and some of the behind the scenes stuff.
But watching the show and as I watch it, I’m watching the comedians and I’m analyzing some of the stuff that they’re doing, and it’s hard not to like that mindset or whatever. But also, I’m always watching comedy, even if I’m not on a show, I’m probably at a show because I’m producing it, so I see so much of it live. I’m like, I don’t want to watch it at home. I need an escape. And your brain does get numb to it.
It’s like, logically, think, Okay, that was really funny, the laugh doesn’t come out. That’s why you know a comedian that really has a surprising angle and that can shock you, not in a shock jock kind of way, but just like, oh, I didn’t see that one coming. Well, that actually funny. That happened last night with one of the comics. It was a really dark joke and I thing it had to do with the miscarriage and a gender reveal was the punchline, and the audience was into it.
But it was so dark and it was so funny because, as he said it, I was walking out of the door because I was taking pictures, and I go around the building instead of cutting through. Just the way it’s laid up and I was walking out as he landed the punchline, and I was like, Jesus Christ, and I said that out loud, and there’s a whole bunch of people on the street as I was coming out and said that, and then I just because it was like it’s so dark but so funny, and I was like, I can’t believe he just said that, and the audience was into it. And I even told him after his set, I was like, dude, that got me so hard. So how much producing are you doing it? Are you booking nights or tell us about what you’re doing there?
Okay, so yeah, I co produced shows. We have our comedy production company called Loco Comedy, which is Loveland Colorado Comedy.
Also you know trains because Loveland’s a big train place, I guess.
But anyway, so yeah, we produce a bunch of monthly shows at different breweries, and you know, we get a hit up to do shows and then if they work out, they become regular shows. So we have I don’t know, like three or four monthly shows that we do, and then we host some open mics here in Loveland. So Loveland is just outside of Fort Collins, northern Colorado. I think we’re about one hundred thousand people or whatever. But there’s no comedy venues in Loveland proper.
We do have the Comedy for It over and Fort Collins, but it’s still like a half hour drive. Or you can go down to comedy works down in Denver that’s an hour every now and again. We do have a big arena and sometimes we’ll get like Bert Kreischer was just here a few months ago at that big arena. We also have the rialto Theater. Tom Poppa is going to be there in July, so they do bring in some bigger acts to Loveland.
But comedy is not like a regularist thing until my co producer Jeff Alright, he moved here from Denver five or six years ago and he started producing shows here, and then when I moved here, we just started working together now with you know, in addition to our monthly shows, we had the Laugh Out Loveland Comedy Festival that we do the first weekend of August too. So yeah, we just go into breweries and turn them into comedy clubs. You know. We have one show called Loading Dock Laughs, and we do it on the loading dock of a brewery. But we turn it into you know, there’s a stage and we have a backdrop, we have lights.
We literally turn it into like a comedy club. Like if you saw pictures, you would not know people are performing on a loading dock. Oh that’s cool. It’s fun to see a scene pop up like that. You know.
Here, I’m in the Greater Morristown, New Jersey area, so, depending on traffic, an hour west of New York City, so it’s far enough away, and there’s just a burgeoning scene that there’s a local bar that’s getting some people. I want to play nice. I see some of the names coming to the bar and I’m like, that person is playing this tiny little room at this bar, really, because that’s surprising me, you know.
And then I go the other way.
I’ll change the details because I’m not here to hammer particular people. But somebody was telling me yesterday about a nationality based tour. So let’s pretend it’s the the Irish American Warriors of Comedy something like that. And I just said, there’s just no way that’s good. It’s just not going to be good.
Let me look at it, you know. I pulled it up on Facebook and I’m like, I don’t know any of these people, and I’m not saying any everybody, but I do put a little bit of time into this. I’m like, that’s not going to be a good show. Yeah, right, exactly. Well, and that’s what we get some really good because we’re so close to Denver, we get some really good acts sometimes and then like our next one, that’s what I’m looking at.
I don’t I’m not as familiar with this comic, but we have a bigger comic coming from Comedy Central, Dave Ross. Dave Ross has done Drunk History, it was on WTF, done a bunch of other stuff or whatever, and we got here at one of our shows coming up. So we’re bringing in, you know, if they’re in the area, we bring in big headliners. You know, we had well he had to cancel because he got sick, but we had Adam Caiton Holland booked for a show and then he ended up getting sick, but then Ben Roy filled in for him. So we’re getting We’re able to bring in some really good talent here too.
So that’s the other cool thing about it, because we’re bringing in nationally touring headliners to this little city that you know, this little town, so and while you know, we don’t really have a I guess you could call it a scene, but I don’t call it a scene because there’s only like four comedians that live in Loveland proper. So it’s not like we’re doing a bunch of shows. But we’re bringing comedy here and the community really loves comedy. Like most of our shows are always packed, which is great. No, that’s great, And you start building a reputation, cool room, cool people to work with, they actually pay you, you know, all that stuff that goes into it.
You know, you get a good reputation and word’s bread. Oh absolutely, and it has. I mean, we’ve had to turn venues down just because we already do all these shows downtown and we’d just be competing with ourselves. Don’t be offended. We just don’t want to oversaturate and then ruin all our shows.
But if the venue approaches us that’s not in downtown Loveland or like I started doing a show at the Spinyard in another town called berth End, which is basically just the outskirts of Loveland. They approached us about doing a show, and I gave them a quote and they accepted it, and we did a show, and it was very successful. It sold out two weeks before we even had the show. All because they have their own internal client base, we didn’t have to do a lot of advertising on our end. The show went really well, so they booked another one, which we’re doing this Friday.
Sold out a week before the show. I had some people hit me up. They’re like, hey, I was trying to get tickets to the show Friday and it says it sold out. Is that true? And I was like, probably, but I’ll double check and yeah, they were sold out already.
That’s great. So yeah, so it’s great to have like a community that supports comedy. No, awesome, All right, let’s go down the list of the bigger comedians. Dave Chappelle. Wear you with Chappelle?
These days, he can say whatever he wants because he’s Dave Chappelle. Now, at least that’s what he thinks. I mean, there’s always going to be consequences. I have much respect. I mean, he definitely, you know, as a definitely as a comedian can definitely respect him.
I don’t know, I haven’t watched a lot of his recent stuff, and I don’t feel like he’s doing comedy as much as he’s doing lectures these days. But a lot of his older stuff great stuff, you know, Like he’s so funny and his cadence and stage presence and delivery is just on point. Yeah, And I do feel like he’s leaning into that I’ve been illustrating lately. And let me go slow here so I don’t accidentally cancel myself. For lett, anyone just wrap him about to do is based in hate at all.
But Dave has a move now where he’ll say a word, I’ll illustrate it, and then he does that knee slapping thing. So like if you said, yea, the early show is sold out, well you know why the late show wasn’t sold out, Dan because of the trans And now I slap my knee and I make the face and I laugh and I mug for the camera and he’s getting a laugh off of that, and I’ll go back to it sounds like comedy, yep, nope’ And you’re absolutely right. That’s one thing that I totally know what you’re talking about there, And I do find that kind of annoying because he’s actually he’s done that a lot. If you look at even his older stuff, and I noticed because there’s a lot of comedians that look up to him. I started seeing that when I was in San Diego.
There were comedians like do an open mic set with same thing. They’d like tell a joke and then like laugh at their own joke and do the hit the mic on their knee, and I’m just like, oh, that’s so annoying. Sometimes I think, though, I feel like because of the stardom that in the level of fame that he’s achieved, I don’t know necessarily, and I don’t know him. I’ve never worked with him. I know people who have and they say he’s a nice guy, and sure that’s the case, So I don’t necessarily think that he believe feels that way about.
You know, the issue per se is I think he’s just doing it because of his ego, like pushing it because he can get away with it kind of thing. If that makes sense. Y, It’s totally got that, yeah, exactly. And when you do try to tell him what to do, then he leans in harder. I feel like it’s I feel like it’s more of the ego that he’s gotten from his fame more than anything.
But again, I don’t know him, so I could be totally wrong. Too. What do you think of all the stuff with Jerry lately? It’s just been weird. It has been weird, and I honestly, I’m surprised that he got a pass.
I mean it’s weird because you know, he did date a seventeen year old when he was in his thirties thirtieth, which is a weird thing. And every other comedian that has had some kind of controversy regarding that kind of stuff, I mean, haven’t been canceled, but they’ve been you know, drug through the Ringer per se, and he didn’t until lately, which is weird to me. Yeah, it’s interesting that it came back thirty years later, but the Palestine stuff is sort of distracted from that, and the interview he did this week has distracted everybody. Again, but Jerry’s been in the news a lot, and I’m not sure for the right reasons at all, And it’s kind of weird too, Like, and you’ve even brought this up on your podcast about the legacy. These comics are leaving like they have a great body of work and then they lean into something and then now that’s what they’re going to be remembered for.
And it’s just kind of a weird thing. It’s like, I mean, obviously people change and they evolve over time, but still weird weird to me that you’ll see. I’ll go the other way, and I toked with this. I would love to see Jerry just go, you know what, I’m seventy years old, I’m going all day and let me show you how good of a comedian I am and do a forty five minute political chunk. It would be stunning, you know, would be like Dylan goes electric but do it.
Yeah, yeah, I mean it would be interesting. I’m not going to disagree with you on that. It would definitely be interesting to see him do that and lean all the way in. But again, when they’re you know, just these small, well small bits that they’re doing or you know, interviews or sound bites or whatever you want to call them, and they kind of lean into them, and then it’s like, well, now that’s all you’re going to be remembered for, is that last thing? Like you have all this great work and then you went and did this.
You really remembered for your last thing. Yeah, it’s true. That’s why, you know, image is everything, especially in entertainment. You’re remembered for that last thing. Have you thought about getting into bourbon as a comedian?
Like, you’re out of a vodka guy, But if you have a boky, you’d like to plug for seven minutes while I take a walk. Yeah. Sure. There’s a great distillery in Montana. Lolo Creek is the distillery, and it is a honey huckleberry flavored vodka.
You put it with a little bit of lemonade and some ice, and you have yourself a marvelous summer drink. And I am not being paid to endorse them. That is just literally my favorite vodka. You managed to do that without losing all your coolness like some other comedians that I won’t name, but I think everybody’s all right. What else is happening in comedy?
Who are you seeing out there? Who’s good? Oh man, there’s so many good people. I think the last time we talked I probably mentioned him too. But he just keeps getting better and better, Zultan, because as is so funny, and he just keeps getting better and better every time I see him.
If you don’t know who Zoltan, do yourself a favor and go discover probably one of the greatest working comedians today. He puts out material so frequently and just so good at it. He’s gotten to the point where he can go have an experience and then that night talk about it on stage and it’s just super funny, like it’s already a joke. And it’s like every time I see him perform or I work with him, he makes me want a quick comedy. I’m like, I’m not gonna be good.
You know, he’s so good. I’m just like I can open for him. I do open for him, but still I’m just like, oh, he’s so good, I don’t know if I’ll ever get there. So he’s one of my favorites. Obviously working some other comics that I feel like a lot of comics in Colorado Denver area has a really good working scene.
There’s a lot of working comics here. But another comic in this area that started to blow up is Derek Strup. He is so funny. He’s been opening a lot for Bert Kreischer, John Christ and Dan A. Bergazzi, but he himself so funny.
I saw him at the comedy for It before, like when I first moved here, and I was just like, Wow, this guy is hilarious. He’s just got like this because he’s from I think from al Arkansas, I don’t remember which. He’s from the south, but so he’s got a little bit of an accent, but just the way his delivery and everything and just he kind of has like a I don’t know, like an angry kind of delivery, and but it works. It’s so funny. So definitely check out Derek Strup.
I’ve heard great things about him. I know you have to go. We’ll do this more often and more frequently, but get all your plugs in. What are you selling us? All?
Right? Well, you can find me on all my social media d bubb Comedy. That’s dbub Comedy everywhere at dbubbcomedy dot com com for the website.
And then yeah, I got a new podcast that I’m doing a couple of new podcasts.
I have a comic book podcast called Panel Picks, where me and another comedian we talk about comic books that are coming out each week.
And then I have an unofficial travel podcast called Drives, Drinks and Dives …
It’s a long name, but it’s with me and another comedian and we’re talking about our ventures on the road. And that’s only a monthly podcast. Very accountant friendly. Wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more. All right man, I will let you go.
This is a pleasure. Thank you, thanks for having me.