We are back with working at out today. We have Hassan Minage, one of my favorite comedians

and friends, actually just saw him. We did a benefit together for the Natural Resources

Defense Council, the NRDC, great organization if you don't know about them. He's a brilliant

comedian. He's one of my friends who actually came out to see the old man in the pool in Los

Angeles at the Mark Tape Forum. He and his collaborator, Prashant, they work on everything

together. They gave a ton of feedback. It was super helpful. It was like working it out

in real time episode out in front of the fountain at the Mark Tape Forum. His new special

is out right now. It just came out so good. It's called the Kings Jester. Just came out on

Netflix, which is why we thought to re-air this episode today. He's great at working out

bits. I love hearing the early stages of his bits. If you want to see the old man and

the pool, it is currently on Broadway October 28th through the holidays. It's running,

I believe for nine weeks. Eight shows a week. There's like 70 performances. So get tickets

through Burbigs.com and enjoy my conversation with the great Hassan Minaj. I mean, I feel like

you're threatening quite a needle right now because you're in the belly of the beast,

which is that current events are the most chaotic they've possibly been in the last 50 years

or more. And you're forced to find the humor in that regularly. And man, do I not envy

that? That is so hard. The problem, thanks, man. I mean, the problem is sometimes, and

I'll tell Prashantis and I'll tell the writers this on the show, is I'll be like, man,

sometimes we don't have enough time to think. Oh, I know. And I actually said this in

this last episode, the joke was something along the lines of this of like, people will

tell us all the time, hey, man, we're living through history. And I'm like, yeah, living

through history sucks. Reading about history is awesome. Like reading about history is awesome

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