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Misery Loves Company

96 - Christian Finnegan

Misery Loves Company

Kevin Brennan

Comedycellar, Comicstriplive, Comedy Interviews, Comedypodcast, Brianmccarthy, Miserypodcast, Comedy, Kevinbrennan

4.1608 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Christian Finnegan joins us this week at Comic Strip Live. We talk about maintaining a sunny disposition in the face of death, incarcerated father-in-laws and being to edgy for A&E. Follow us on Twitter! @kevinbrenan666 @christfinnegan @brianpmccarthy @adamhiniker

Transcript

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0:00.0

here we go.

0:01.0

Here we go. Once again, we go once again

0:23.2

mpethu loz company from undisclosed location somewhere on second avenue

0:27.4

that cube train's getting like more and more fucking uh ruin you ever know it's like

0:33.4

inviting a new girl to the city and then all of a sudden there's always delays and everything we're at the comic strip that's what

0:39.1

no it's convenient to get out the comic strip but it's like when i first got on it was you know it was like

0:43.9

nice and it wasn't that the new second yeah it was coming every five minutes and now they had like a signal

0:49.3

problem in brooklyn brooklyn ruins everything am i right christian christian Christian Finnegan. I'm sure, yes. Hi.

0:51.2

Christian Finnegan's here, everybody. He's got the best, I was thinking it on the way, he definitely has the best name in comedy, right? Christian Finnegan. Thank you. It's a very Irish show. It's not even my first name. My first name is Fletcher. Fletcher, Christian Finnegan. Are you serious? Yes, that's my full name.

0:52.7

Fletcher Christian Finnegan.

0:53.3

That's me.

0:54.8

Oh, that's very was. Blue-letcher. Christian Finigan? That's me.

1:07.5

Oh, that's very was. Blue Ray Extra in the name of the father. I love your daughter. I was never called Fletcher, though. And they just called you Christian? Chris or Christian. Is there any, I was thinking, is there any pressure to be like a good person because your name's Christian? No, the exact opposite. I don't know.

1:44.3

I was one of those teenagers who did that whole like, I'm an atheist and you can't handle me. Like I was that kid who's like, you know, I'm going to tear this playhouse down. I tell you that you should be Satan. Yeah. Where did you grow up there? You were doing that. Boston. Suburbs, Boston.

1:41.8

Like, I had an uncle who was a priest and, you know, my dad was my confirmation teacher. And I, he was. Busted out in the middle of confirmation. I said, screw you, dad. Yeah, I'm not picking a, you pick your own saint, dad. Yeah, man. It's like an after school special. Yeah. Who plays you, Scott Bayo?

1:43.9

I could dream.

2:01.5

Fingers. Dead. Yeah, man. It was like an after-school special. Yeah. Who plays you, Scott Bayo?

2:02.3

I could dream. Fingers crossed. It's a very Irish. So you started in Boston? No, I started here. I went to college here. NYU? Yeah. I did go to NYU. For what? For a film? No, I was, I started as an actor and then halfway through it, switched to playwriting, and then... Wow. I don't know why I'm laughing. Well, because it's not like a giant jump. Yeah. It's not like waiter to bus boy. Yeah. Everybody who went to NYU, like, just quit or they just... Yep, I did. Nah, yeah, I don't know. No, not everybody. everybody went for like film or acting or it seemed like everybody was just like, oh, what the fuck am I? Yeah, I was at Playwrights Horizons. I quit after like a semester. I was taking class of playwrights. Yeah. I think, and by the end of it, I was like interning into Village Voice, and I thought I was going to be like a writer. Right. And then I realized I have no... What did you do with the Village Force? I interned in the film department, actually.

2:35.2

Oh, you're there?

2:35.6

Yeah, I... voice and I thought I was going to be like a writer. Right. And then I realized I've no... What'd you do with the Village Voice?

2:52.2

I interned in the film department, actually.

2:54.1

Oh, you did?

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