163. Josh Johnson: Reinventing the Modern Comedy Special

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Josh Johnson is a writer and correspondent for The Daily Show and his stand-up sets have millions of views on YouTube. Josh talks with Mike about cultivating a fan base via the YouTube videos, why he thinks chasing success in the comedy industry is sometimes antithetical to the art form, and shares the advice he got from Trevor Noah. Plus, Josh helps Mike work out a new story about animals living in Mike's walls. Please consider donating to Feeding America

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0:00.0	You have this joke about how, where you say COVID killed millions of people, but somehow everyone I owed money to lived.
0:06.3	Oh, yeah.
0:06.8	Who do you owe money to?
0:08.5	We've settled the deaths now.
0:11.1	Okay.
0:11.7	We're in a much better place.
0:13.4	But at the time of taping, I was like, man.
0:24.1	That is the voice of the great Josh Johnson. That is the voice of the great Josh Johnson.
0:29.3	We have a great episode in store for you today.
0:32.7	This is actually one of my favorite episodes we've ever done.
0:37.8	I've been accused of saying that before, but I will say it was definitely one of these episodes where we came out of it and we're just like, oh, yeah, that's exactly what the show is meant to be.
0:44.6	Josh is a brilliant comedian. He is a natural storyteller. He's a natural sort of comedy writer.
0:51.9	He wrote for The Daily Show for many, many years. He's been a correspondent
0:56.4	on The Daily Show. He has an extensive library of his own little YouTube comedy specials,
1:06.1	which are just fantastic. I mean, there's so many of them. You've got to go over to his YouTube
1:12.9	channel and check it out. So I'm really thrilled about this episode today. Thank you to everyone
1:19.1	who came out to my show, The Good Life at the Beacon Theater in New York. It was a culmination
1:24.8	of two years of touring.
1:29.3	Maybe my favorite show I've ever done.
1:32.6	I'm actually doing one encore show.
1:38.6	I'll be announcing soon at Largo in Los Angeles on April 14th.
1:42.2	Go to berbiggs.com and sign up for the mailing list to be the first to know about that because that will go very quickly.
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