It's Friday, October 10th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist I'm Mike Peska, and it's back.

The beloved, or at least beliked, possibly but tolerated series, funny you should mention,

in which I, Mike Pesca, the aforementioned, and currently mentioning myself, self-referential, Mike Pesca,

interview a comedian about their jokes. Not so much their process of writing jokes, but maybe a little

of that. Not so much their backstory, but enough of that, so you understand the orientation,

but the ideas behind their jokes.

And today, kicking off Series 3 is what they would call it in the UK, series 3, season

three would call it in the U.S., is Steph Tolev.

She has a special out called Filth Queen.

And I have to say, Steph's jokes, which are visceral and engaging and perhaps depending on your

orientation off-putting, I mean, I'm going to warn you, we get into weird things in the body

with bad smells very early on in this episode.

But the reason I mentioned it is, you might say, okay, Mike, is this really

why funny you should mention exists? I thought it was more to talk to comedians who are like

the new philosophers and ask them about their jokes as if they were op-eds. Yes. But what we have

to do, see, everyone has a thesis or a theory. And their thesis might not be about the Sinairouso War. Anyway, that thing

ended like over a hundred years ago. You know, their theories may not be a desalinization,

Law of the Sea Treaty. I mean, that would be a great comic set. Their theories might be less

stated and more about bodily functions and how we relate to them. And so therefore,

I will tease out these theories or theses as theses, and sometimes theses, depending on

your appetite for disgusting, are a little about feces. That's fine. Because on Funny You Should Mention, it's all funny,

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