Episode 17 - Mark Flanagan

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Arts, Food

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Mark Flanagan, aka “Flanny” is the founder/owner of The Largo Theater. I trade a loaf of sourdough for amazing stories about Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and how he created one of the best places for comedy and music on the planet.

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0:00.0	It's time for breaking bread with Papa.
0:03.0	Hey!
0:04.0	Don't you know?
0:05.0	Hey!
0:06.0	It's our goal.
0:07.0	Hey!
0:08.0	It's time for breaking bread with Papa.
0:11.0	Don't you know?
0:13.0	It's also a show.
0:15.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Breaking Bread with Tom Papa.
0:21.0	This week we sit down with Mark Flanagan, aka Flanny, the owner and operator of Largo in Los Angeles.
0:32.4	Largo is one of the most beloved places to perform comedy or music
0:38.9	in the world. I was lucky enough to start performing there, I don't know, probably eight
0:47.4	years ago or something and it'd been going on much longer before that. It is such a great venue. It just has this great creative
0:58.4	atmosphere and it cultivates freedom which is what all the performers need and the audience
1:05.7	knows that they're going to get that from the performers and that's why this place
1:10.3	has been successful since the 90s.
1:15.9	It all comes from Flanny.
1:17.3	It all comes from this owner who is just this great guy who has such a love for life and such a love for entertaining
1:27.0	and a love of good things and that all comes out.
1:32.8	Whenever I travel around and perform,
1:35.8	the places where the owner is involved
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