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Death, Sex & Money - Michael Ian Black's Middle-Aged Angst

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Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Michael Ian Black has been steadily building his career since the '90s. But he says he's tired of not finding mainstream success. 

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0:00.0

You get to a certain point in your life where you go, oh, like, I'm just not a star. And that's either

0:11.3

going to be okay or it's not. And in my case, I have no choice. So it's got to be okay.

0:20.6

This is death, sex, and money.

0:23.9

Christ, I mean, these ladies aren't starving at death.

0:26.1

They make minimum wage.

0:27.4

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:30.5

No, he's dead.

0:31.3

Mr. Fulti, dead again.

0:33.8

And need to talk about more.

0:35.3

We're not having real sex.

0:36.6

It's pretty close.

0:38.0

I'm on a sale.

0:40.8

I was a smart ass.

0:44.1

When did you realize you were funny?

0:46.8

Well, I always found myself funny.

0:53.5

Nobody agreed with that assessment until maybe college.

1:01.8

College is where comedian Michael Ian Black met the people he'd collaborate with for the

1:06.9

next 20 years. It started with the state, the MTV sketch comedy show. It was defined

1:13.1

by a kind of absurdist, detached Gen X cool. Marry, baby, you see what I got here. What have you got

1:18.8

there? Well, there's a box of pudding, Barry. What is it saying? It says cook and chill. And baby,

1:24.6

that's what I do every night. I cook, and then I chill.

1:28.1

Aw, yeah.

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