Ben Gleib on Launching YouTube’s First Late Night Show | Greg Fitzsimmons

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Greg Fitzsimmons

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🗓️ 21 May 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Subscribe to Greg Fitzsimmons: https://bit.ly/subGregFitz Greg sits down with comedian and host Ben Gleib to talk about launching Good Night with Ben Gleib, a new late night show built for YouTube, complete with a virtual audience, house-party energy, big-name guests, and a studio inside Ben’s home. They also get into Chelsea Handler stories, late night comedy, John Oliver, dating, Ben’s wild Hollywood party memories, and the chaos of trying to run a full production out of your own house. Ben’s show, Good Night with Ben Gleib, was announced as one of YouTube’s first digitally native late-night talk shows. This show is produced by Gotham Production Studios and part of the Gotham Network. https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com/studios/ Follow Greg Fitzsimmons: Facebook: https://facebook.com/FitzdogRadio Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregfitzsimmons Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregfitzshow Official Website: http://gregfitzsimmons.com Tour Dates: https://bit.ly/GregFitzTour Merch: https://bit.ly/GregFitzMerch “Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons” Book: https://amzn.to/2Z2bB82 “Life on Stage” Comedy Special: https://bit.ly/GregFitzSpecial Listen to Greg Fitzsimmons: Fitzdog Radio: https://bit.ly/FitzdogRadio Sunday Papers: http://bit.ly/SundayPapersPod Childish: http://childishpod.com Watch more Greg Fitzsimmons: Latest Uploads: https://bit.ly/latestGregFitz Fitzdog Radio: https://bit.ly/radioGregFitz Sunday Papers: https://bit.ly/sundayGregFitz Stand Up Comedy: https://bit.ly/comedyGregFitz Popular Videos: https://bit.ly/popGregFitz About Greg Fitzsimmons: Mixing an incisive wit with scathing sarcasm, Greg Fitzsimmons is an accomplished stand-up, an Emmy Award winning writer, and a host on TV, radio and his own podcasts. Greg is host of the popular “FitzDog Radio” podcast (https://bit.ly/FitzdogRadio), as well as “Sunday Papers” with co-host Mike Gibbons (http://bit.ly/SundayPapersPod) and “Childish” with co-host Alison Rosen (http://childishpod.com). A regular with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel, Greg also frequents “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “Lights Out with David Spade,” and has made more than 50 visits to “The Howard Stern Show.” Howard gave Greg his own show on Sirius/XM which lasted more than 10 years. Greg’s one-hour standup special, “Life On Stage,” was named a Top 10 Comedy Release by LA Weekly. The special premiered on Comedy Central and is now available on Amazon Prime, as a DVD, or a download (https://bit.ly/GregFitzSpecial). Greg’s 2011 book, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons (https://amzn.to/2Z2bB82), climbed the best-seller charts and garnered outstanding reviews from NPR and Vanity Fair. Greg appeared in the Netflix series “Santa Clarita Diet,” the Emmy-winning FX series “Louie,” spent five years as a panelist on VH1’s “Best Week Ever,” was a reoccurring panelist on “Chelsea Lately,” and starred in two half-hour stand-up specials on Comedy Central. Greg wrote and appeared on the Judd Apatow HBO series “Crashing.” Writing credits include HBO’s “Lucky Louie,” “Cedric the Entertainer Presents,” “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher,” “The Man Show” and many others. On his mantle beside the four Daytime Emmys he won as a writer and producer on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” sit “The Jury Award for Best Comedian” from The HBO Comedy Arts Festival and a Cable Ace Award for hosting the MTV game show "Idiot Savants." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fitzdog Radio.
0:11.3	I'm in a different studio today because my other studio is under construction for a week.
0:16.5	We'll be back in that studio next week.
0:18.5	But this one, and Harlan Williams, which we're taping tomorrow,
0:22.5	will be in this studio. What's it called? So we want to thank Bass Hole Podcast Studios here
0:29.8	in Hollywood for their graciously having me in. This past week, I had an experience I wanted to share with you just quickly, and then we'll get into this Ben Glebe interview that we just did that was very fun.
0:45.9	So a friend of mine named Dave Hallan Ann, I've lived in the same neighborhood for 25 years, and I've gotten to be very close to a bunch of guys and
0:55.2	we play poker together and go to the beach volleyball on Sundays. Anyway, one of us, Dave
1:01.2	Hallinand, great guy with two young kids, lived three doors down from us, was a camera guy. And
1:10.4	he would finish a production. He'd be away for a few months and he'd come
1:14.1	home and the first thing he would always do is he would go take a solo hike somewhere kind of
1:19.7	adventurous guy and he would camp out and it was his way of kind of clearing his head after
1:24.8	working his ass off so he went on a hike like that
1:29.2	and went down a trail and he got to a little lagoon and he stepped into it and it was very
1:35.7	slippery and it fed into a waterfall and he went over the top and he didn't make it.
1:50.9	So unbelievably tragic, really hard on everybody, obviously his wife and kids.
1:58.6	So every year we go back to that trail and in his honor, we walked the, we walked the hike.
2:00.4	So we did it.
2:03.0	This year was the 10th anniversary. So there was about nine of us and we headed up there in a couple cars and we met at the trailhead. It was
2:08.9	supposed to be 68 degrees. It was 90 degrees. And one of our friends named Josh, uh, was wearing heavy jeans, wouldn't wear a hat, hadn't hydrated.
2:23.7	We get about a mile up a steep hill. It's up in the, in the sequoias. And there's a river running next to it that is the steepest river in
2:36.7	North America did I already talk about this on the show I can't remember if I did he doesn't
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