Funny You Should Mention...Again - Sam Jay

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Mike Pesca

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4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Our third installment of Funny You Should Mention welcomes Sam Jay, former SNL writer, Tom Brady Roaster, host of HBO's Pause with Sam Jay, and stand-up comic behind such specials as Netflix's 3 In The Morning and HBO's Salute Me or Shoot Me. Sam and Mike talk cops, racism, white vs black people money management, and a joke she'll discuss but won't be telling again. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.7	It's Friday, December 27th, 2024 from Peachfish Productions. It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.
0:40.4	Today's comedian in our replay, our succinct six-episode replay, a funny you should mention,
0:47.0	is Sam J. I recently saw Sam as a panelist on the CNN show, Have I Got News for You? And that's hosted by Roy Wood,
0:59.1	who is the last guest in our funny you should mention series. Sam Jay, I've got an insight into
1:07.2	Sam's personality and her way of doing comedy, which is very much to comment on the
1:12.7	news, which is very much to situate herself and her experience within the broader cultural
1:20.4	milieu. Yeah, hey, you hate that phrase as much as I do, but we're going to gussy up funny
1:24.5	you should mention. She's a person who loves to try out ideas.
1:28.6	And she was talking about, oh, some crazy conspiracy theory that you can tell she doesn't even
1:32.7	believe. But maybe she does. And she tries it out and it gets a reaction. She plays with it. And
1:37.0	that's kind of what she does in her comedy. In her HBO show, that was a really fascinating show.
1:43.8	It came at a specific time when HBO and networks like it were saying,
1:48.2	hey, let's give money to people we haven't heard from before and they could do interesting things.
1:52.5	And she did do interesting things.
1:54.3	And Sam is doing interesting things consistently in her stand-up as well.
1:58.8	I think you'll enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed talking to Sam.
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