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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

82. Sam Morril: What Did You Do? My Act.

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sam Morril tells well-crafted jokes but sometimes they make people angry. Sam is known for dealing with provocative subject matter but he doesn’t consider himself a provocative comedian. He and Mike dissect the difference. Then, on the heels of Sam’s new hit Netflix special “Same Time Tomorrow,” the two comics pollinate the seeds of new jokes about mink coats, resistance coffee shops, disappointing your religious relatives, and why Elon Musk has eight kids.

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If you look at like Carl and for example, they weaponize his jokes for whatever message they have because his jokes are so complex like the Bible

0:09.2

Taken Carl and being like this is what it man

0:12.7

But at the same time Carl and contradicted himself like all comics did yes like he'll do stuff where you're like

0:19.0

Comics should never do this and then he does that hicks did that a lot of the greatest comics do that so

0:24.0

I mean we all and certainly prior everyone yeah, I mean

0:28.2

All the best comics and rock and rock because when you put out that much material you're gonna come to picture so

0:37.4

We are back with a new episode of working it out. That's the voice of comedian Sam or L

0:42.8

I love that Sam or L.

0:45.8

He's got a whole bunch of comedy specials

0:48.9

Two on Comedy Central he has one on on YouTube that was on a roof

0:54.2

It's called up on a roof he did during the pandemic because he's addicted to doing stand-up comedy and the new

0:59.7

Especially he has it's called same time tomorrow. It's on Netflix

1:03.5

We talk a lot about finding the line in comedy and what it means to be a provocative

1:09.9

comedian and and what it means to tour as a comedian he and I have that in common

1:15.5

As a matter of fact, I've been I've been out on the road this fall. I just had great shows in Pittsburgh and Cleveland

1:23.8

I'm heading to Detroit Columbus Nashville in Cincinnati the Atlanta shows are sold out

1:29.9

It's so exciting and then next up

1:32.8

Broadway I'm at the Vivian Beaumont theater at Lincoln Center Lincoln Center what yeah, that's right Lincoln Center

1:40.9

It's unbelievable

1:42.9

I someone said to me the other day this person said thanks for mentioning on the Jimmy Carr episode that that it's

1:51.4

The the ticketing is complex on the show it is

1:56.4

In the sense that some of the tickets are alarmingly expensive disregard disregard the alarmingly expensive tickets

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