113. Todd Barry: The Inventor of Crowd Work

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🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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On the heels of the release of his new special “Domestic Shorthair,” Todd Barry sits down with Mike this week for a conversation about his 35 years in comedy. The two talk about whether or not Todd invented crowdwork, if Bill Burr was right when he said Mike was “doing” Todd when Mike was first starting out, and why Todd can never do another prom show. Plus, Todd reveals the problem he has with Mike’s cat, Mr. Moustache. Please consider donating to www.doctorswithoutborders.org

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0:00.0	I think it was to Hawaii and it was like 10 hours and the guy sitting in front of me every five minutes
0:07.4	wrapped both his hands around the back of a seat
0:09.4	and he was blocking my screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:13.0	And I was kind of like...
0:14.0	I'm not like a confrontational person,
0:18.0	especially, I have no idea what's on the other side.
0:21.0	And he kept doing it, and then I was like going I guess and I said well at
0:26.4	at least I can get a picture of this for Instagram because he's like
0:30.0	literally these fingers over the screen and I said I'll come up with a caption like
0:35.8	blocking my view of 500 days of summer and that kept happening and kept happening
0:41.0	the flight eventually lands, the doors open,
0:43.9	paramedics rush on and start treating this guy.
0:46.6	He'd been in some sort of agony the whole time.
0:50.2	But there's a happy ending.
0:51.8	I didn't post a picture.
0:53.0	That is the voice of the great Todd Berry.
0:59.0	I have known Todd for a long time. One of my favorite comics. I
1:05.2	opened for him early in my career. We talk about that today. We talk about
1:10.0	crowd work, which he put out a Crowdwork special years ago, that's hilarious, and now
1:16.3	Crowdwork is sort of like the all-everything on social media, and I feel like he sort of
1:22.1	pioneered the idea of filming that.
1:25.0	He has a new YouTube special out that is, it's called Domestic Short Hair.
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