#154: Specials (Jonas Larsen)

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🗓️ 18 February 2014

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Jonas Larsen (the Senior Vice President of Talent and Specials for Comedy Central) met me for the final podcast from Skeptic Tank East headquarters 1. We talked about comedy specials. How they look and why, how they're shot and why, pretty much I got to ask almost everything I've wanted to know about what goes into the process of making a special. I have no idea if it'll be interesting to non-comedy fans or not. Hopefully it will be.

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0:00.0	I mean, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how you light it or what kind of fancy set you're putting in the background.
0:06.4	If it's not funny, it's not funny.
0:08.7	Yeah.
0:09.9	I mean, at the end of the day, you really have to look at, is it funny?
0:13.9	And then, everything else is kind of secondary.
0:30.0	Hey, everybody. What's up, Inan? What's going on?
0:51.2	Welcome to R.I.S.H.F. here at Skeptic Tank.
0:52.7	I've been still at 154.
0:54.6	So today, I have not a comedian. I have a friend of mine named Jonas Larson.
0:59.5	He works at Comedy Central.
1:01.7	He works in like, I don't know exactly whose job title is.
1:04.8	He's like the head of, like, he oversees the money and the looks and the people and the specials.
1:12.4	I guess it's the entire department. It's his or something.
1:14.8	I'm not positive. I don't know job titles.
1:18.0	I should know them better.
1:20.2	It's not a part of the game I'm good at.
1:22.9	Other people are, I was with Nick Thun once.
1:27.6	I was with Nick Thun come back from like, Toronto or, or Montreal.
1:34.4	And dude, we were getting on a plane.
1:37.5	You know how you have to pass by the first class people as you walk by?
1:41.4	Because you would think the first class, I would think if I was designing it,
1:44.8	I would think put the first class people on last.
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