#75: No-No Words (Kurt Metzger, Keren Margolis, Ari Shaffir)

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Ari Shaffir

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🗓️ 3 September 2012

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Kurt Metzger invited into his Spanish Harlem tenement where we talked about censorship of comedians. I don't know anyone who gets more upset every time the issue comes up. He gets so angry. I love it. Keren Margolis was also there and she gave her perspective as a comic who's new to the game. What we can and can't say on stage is probably the biggest hot button issue in the world of stand up.

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0:00.0	You tell me to relax and listen to these facts that everyone's my friend
0:08.5	And we'll be totally out, but know this much is true
0:13.5	No matter what I do, no matter what I say, I'm bending everywhere
0:22.0	Well, hello there, ladies and gentlemen
0:30.0	Welcome to Ari Shephard's skeptic tank, I'm Ari Shephard
0:34.0	My voice has been fucking shot since really I had a bit like six months ago I started this
0:40.0	To be screaming I haven't even done it for the last two months
0:43.0	But my voice has just not come back
0:46.0	Maybe I have screaming throughout my act
0:49.0	Hello, you guys, welcome to Ari Shephard's skeptic tank
0:51.0	On today's episode, I talked to my friend Kurt Metzger
0:55.0	You might remember Kurt from the very first podcast that I did on my own called Religion It
1:01.0	It was a good one
1:03.0	And you might remember from the one I fucked up about a month ago where the sound was terrible
1:07.0	Because I had a fucking awful chord and that's the same guy Kurt Metzger
1:11.0	He's one of the funniest people in America
1:14.0	He's amazing, if you ever get a chance to see him live, which you won't because he never tours
1:19.0	He goes like six road gigs a year
1:22.0	You should see him, if he's at the comedy seller in New York, you should see him, he's a New York comic
1:27.0	And he tends to get to see him, fucking see him
1:29.0	Plus, he's got this amazing thing where he goes on Facebook and just starts fights
1:35.0	So he just says like ridiculous things and goes back and forth of people on comments
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