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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

Episode #1097: Lewis Black!

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Comedy, Leisure

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2012

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Luke joins comedian Lewis Black onstage to discuss politics, comedy and why The Daily Show was once kind of lame.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And if the cruise is anything, be it appreciation, be it a voyage, be it an adventure that leads

0:06.2

back to ourselves, be it a cartwheel or a summer song. If you find the cruise in a piece of

0:10.5

carrot cake, if you find the cruise in a tap-less bar, then one thing the cruise always is, I think,

0:15.1

is sincere. And sincerity is one of my favorite victories in this lifetime.

0:20.7

T-B-T-L!

0:24.9

Oh my god, it's happening again. It's another edition of T-B-T-L, the show that just might be

0:31.0

too beautiful to live. This party is going to be off of the hook. Hey there, I'm your host,

0:38.1

Luke Burbank, weighing into 189 pounds. This is episode 1097 in a collector series and we've

0:48.6

got a real treat for you on this Wednesday. It's conversation with the comedian and playwright,

0:55.8

Lewis Black. He's been in Seattle putting up a new play at our local theater, ACT, and a couple of

1:03.6

weeks ago, I got to hang out on stage with Lewis and talk to him about his sort of career in comedy,

1:10.9

his career in playwriting, and what it's like to be like a professionally angry person,

1:16.4

and what effect that maybe has on you. First though, this reminder that T-B-T-L

1:20.7

gets sponsorship from Bing. Now, what are the two places you probably spend most of your time

1:28.0

when you're on the internet? Probably on your Facebook page or Twitter or one of these social

1:32.2

media things, and then the other will be on some kind of search engine. And what's great about

1:36.5

Bing's new social search is that you can integrate both of these things. You can be on Bing,

1:42.0

and as we've talked about on this show before, they've got all kinds of amazing stuff on

1:46.2

there. The travel stuff is incredible. It'll tell you if the airline ticket you're about to buy

1:51.2

is going to go up or down. You can actually save money just by using Bing. And now when you're on

1:57.2

there, if you got a question like this week, I was asking about Game of Thrones. If everybody

2:01.7

else was as annoyed as I was about all the time spent with dragons and smoke monsters and things

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