117: Testing Joke Limits w/ Sam Morril

Be Here For A While

Comedy Interviews, Education, Self-improvement, Comedy

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🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Comedian Sam Morril joins Rachael to chat about his new 1-hour special "Positive Influence," presented by Amy Schumer, which airs this Friday, September 14th on Comedy Central. Sam is a brilliant joke writer, performer, and all around funny dude. Recently, Sam has been seen on Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and “Conan” on TBS for multiple appearances. Rachael and Sam discuss joke writing, pushing the limits on funny, and life as a comedian. They also swap stories about their times performing in Reno, NV, internet trolls, dating, and relationships. Tune in!

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0:00.0	Well, hello friends. Welcome back to an episode of Be Here for a while. It's Monday.
0:20.0	I had a good weekend. Did you guys have a good weekend?
0:23.8	It's the weekend after Labor Day weekend,
0:26.0	so it was a short week.
0:28.2	This weekend was also, on Sunday was the Jewish New Year.
0:32.4	I know that because I'm 3% Jewish.
0:35.3	Just ask my 23 and me test.
0:37.4	I'm very proud of it.
0:38.4	It's like a batch of honor I wear.
0:40.6	I always wanted to be. And you know what? what I am and I think that's enough to brag about frankly
0:48.1	Yeah, it's Monday. I'm excited for the week and I think I think it's because I had a good weekend you know I went to a
0:55.2	new French restaurant called Barbette in West Hollywood on Friday I could be saying that wrong
1:00.1	it could be like Barbette but you know I'm not French so whatever the food was
1:05.0	really good and the atmosphere felt like you were in Paris minus the fact that it
1:08.8	was across the street from a fat burger and a few gay novelty shops in West Hollywood.
1:14.1	And they also basically steal your car.
1:17.5	So that's kind of, well, it's a joke.
1:19.6	But you pull up to valet, all right, give them your money.
1:24.0	And you give them your money beforehand, which is a little strange.
1:29.3	Give them your money, go into the restaurant, eat, come back out, no valet stand.
1:35.0	And it's not like it was like 1 a.m.
1:37.2	We'd like an early dinner.
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