Dan Soder Takes on Outraged ‘Couch Warriors’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Whether you know stand-up comedian Dan Soder from Showtime’s ‘Billions’ (he plays Mafee) or his Comedy Central SiriusXM show ‘The Bonfire’ (he co-hosts with comic Big Jay Oakerson) or are just meeting him for the first time, you will quickly realize that he has some very strong opinions and loves to talk. And on this episode, we get into it on everything from his new HBO special ‘Son of a Gary’ to his friend Shane Gillis’ firing from SNL and a whole lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | I should tell you at the top of this, I'm an only child, so I'm guaranteed weird. |
| 0:04.0 | I was raised by a single mom. |
| 0:06.0 | And my dad picked the bottle over me, so comedian. |
| 0:12.3 | That's comedian Dan Soder in a nutshell, and this is The Last Laugh. |
| 0:17.4 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast. |
| 0:19.7 | Today on the podcast, I travel to New York to interview fellow only child Dan Soder, |
| 0:24.8 | whose new stand-up special premieres this Saturday night on HBO. |
| 0:28.7 | It's called Son of Aguirre and includes some pretty dark stories about growing up with a single mother and mostly absent father. |
| 0:35.7 | You might recognize Dan as Maffee from the Showtime series Billions, |
| 0:39.7 | but in his heart, he is purely a stand-up comedian, |
| 0:42.9 | who performs regularly in New York City and co-host the Bonfire |
| 0:46.1 | on Comedy Central's Sirius XM channel with his good friend Big J. O'Kerson. |
| 0:51.3 | One of Dan's other close friends happens to be Shane Gillis, who has been a regular |
| 0:55.8 | guest on the bonfire long before he gained infamy by getting fired by Saturday Night Live |
| 1:00.5 | before he started. Dan has a lot of strong opinions about that situation, and he tells us all |
| 1:06.1 | about it on today's episode. Maybe because he spends upwards of eight hours a week speaking into a radio microphone, |
| 1:13.0 | Dan was incredibly fun to talk to and you are not going to want to miss today's show. |
| 1:17.8 | But first, as always, please help us out by leaving a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 1:23.2 | Maybe you too have strong opinions you want to share. |
| 1:26.1 | Oh, and if you happen to be listening on Stitcher, we could really use the help with some five-star ratings and reviews there. |
| 1:32.6 | Check it out and you'll see what I mean. |
| 1:34.7 | And don't forget to follow us on Instagram at Last Laugh Pod. |
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