All right, we get this podcast. We'll start out quickly. We have Brian Henigan is with us as well as Chad Shank and Greg Chaley and we have a special guest. We just shot a segment for viceland.com with Cliff Nesterov.

He's the author of the comedians. It's a history of comedians from the thirties through like the eighties and then they forced Louis CK into actually sell it. Absolutely correct. Absolutely correct.

And we just filmed a segment about comedy classes and is it possible to teach people how to be funny?

And of course, you know, I have opinions, but we get done with that and we wanted you to just do a quick set on the podcast because you have to zip back up to Tucson.

Yeah, first question. Yeah. First question. What's the difference between vice.com vice the show on HBO and vice land, which was what I first learned about in 2003 or so.

This land is a TV channel, which is what we just filmed it for. So it's not for the internet. It's for the cable station. Vice on HBO, I guess is what they did before they had a TV station of their own. And now I think that they have their own TV station eventually that they can dump Bill Mar. Yeah.

Hey, if you could teach comedy, but anyway, well, we were talking beforehand about this sort of gimmick that people use where they have predictable punch lines.

And Bill Mar always does that thing in his monologues where it's like, one is a blah, blah, blah. The other is a black guy. You know that whatever that switch is that is every.

Are you allowed to talk shit about Bill Mar at this point because I don't want to get you fired. We do have a buyer's remorse clause on this podcast where if you say something,

you shouldn't have will take it up. I have a tendency to make some people. I think Bill Mars very quick. I think he's brilliant at what he does in his format. His standup is fucking awful. Just like he took classes from the guy you showed me.

Yeah, I like Bill Mars program. I think it serves a good purpose in like political discourse. He has people like Matt Taiibi and Jeremy Skahill. Very great. Like people I've never heard of, which is why I don't watch it. But like really smart. Like people they wouldn't otherwise be on TV at all with their politics.

But his comedy when the last writers strike happened and he went back on the air with some kind of exemption without writers. He did new rules, which he wrote himself.

And oh my god, that was that was a sorry site. I gotta say. Yeah, well then now you're getting me off track again into the writers strike where you go, oh really. I remember the first one saying or the last one.

Oh really, we're not going to get suddenly Susan anymore third rock from the sun. And I don't even know the local or updated references for that.

But it's sad you can only be here for overnight. Yeah, we're flying to Nashville to do a segment about Christian comedians, the church circuit. So that's why we're that's going to be so much more fun.

I don't know. I'm a little bit intimidated that I'm going to be ambushed by like I'm going to be baptized or something against my will. I don't know. I don't know what to explain. You won't laugh. I guarantee you no matter what happens. You won't.

Who doesn't laugh at liars? Well, he explained this. You guys weren't in the room, but he explained for the segment. This Christian comic, who the way you described her is basically telling people why it's funny. She had to ignore the church and why the church shit on her mental illness.

Yeah, she's still very much, I guess, born again type person, but and she does strictly Christian venues or it's at least marketed that way church going people come to her gigs, but she talks about how she was suicidal.

Well, after she had found Jesus and was born again and hypothetically the theory is once you that happens, you're happy and you're full of joy, but she was suicidal. So she talks about that in her standup act and how she called her kids shit on it.

Yeah, she called her kids into her into her room and it was going to tell her small children. Mommy's not going to be around anymore. You'll be better off without me. So that alone was controversial for this Christian audience. Now pray before you go to bed. Yeah. Yeah. I find that hilarious. I don't know if the rest of you think it's funny, but I think it's fucking.

Diversity is great. It's an interesting thing that interesting point dog makes is that she plays the same role for her constituency as he plays for his, which is to make them laugh at something that's deadly serious.

You know, we'll play into the demographic is like, you know, political comedians are very guilty of that. You know, a left wing guilty, a left wing political comedian has a left wing.

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