Eugene Mirman Gets Personal

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🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Eugene Mirman is perhaps best known for voicing Gene Belcher on ‘Bob’s Burgers.’ But as his new documentary ‘It Started as a Joke’ proves, he is also one of the most innovative and influential stand-up comics of his generation. In this episode, we check in with Eugene via Zoom from his home on Cape Cod before sharing the longer interview we taped with him before the coronavirus pandemic forced us all indoors. He talks about starting the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival “as a joke,” learning to get more personal in his comedy and of course, ‘Bob’s Burgers.’ Twitter: @EugeneMirman and @mattwilstein | Instagram: @eugenemirman and @lastlaughpod Stream ‘It Started as a Joke’ on Amazon Prime Video. Highlights from this episode and others at The Daily Beast. Go to ratethispodcast.com/laugh to leave us a rating and review. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, so I just plug this guy in here and turn this on.
0:09.0	And we are good to go.
0:15.0	This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast and we are back. We have been on a longer than expected
0:24.4	hiatus over the last several weeks, and a lot has changed since we last brought you a new episode of
0:30.0	this show. Like the rest of the world, I am now recording this podcast from my house in Los Angeles,
0:36.5	and for the time being, I'll be interviewing
0:38.4	my guests via Zoom. All of this presents some new and interesting challenges, but I am excited
0:44.7	to bring you episodes during this time that I can promise will be both hilarious and at times
0:49.8	kind of intense. And I'm not going to lie, today's episode gets a little dark. But if you stick
0:56.1	around until the end, you'll get to hear a truly insane story about that time Ira Glass got
1:01.8	blackout drunk. So, you know, at least there's that. I actually recorded my conversation
1:07.5	with the brilliantly funny Eugene Merman long before the coronavirus pandemic began.
1:13.7	You might know Eugene as the voice of Gene Belcher on Bob's Burgers, but he is also one of the
1:19.0	most innovative stand-up comics of his generation. This month, Eugene and his longtime collaborator,
1:25.8	Julie Smith-Klemm, released their new documentary.
1:28.8	It Started as a Joke, on iTunes, Amazon, and a bunch of other platforms.
1:33.4	So I decided to do a quick check-in with him from his home on Cape Cod
1:37.0	and then share our longer interview from last year's South by Southwest Festival after that.
1:42.1	But first, let's hear a clip from it started as a joke.
1:46.0	The film chronicles the legendary Eugene Merman Festival,
1:49.3	which literally started as a joke and then ended up running for 10 years in Brooklyn.
1:54.3	In this clip, Eugene and previous Last Laugh guest, Mike Berbiglia,
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