This is the Last Laugh.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast and welcome to the summer of Joel Kim Booster.

You may have noticed that Joel, who I talked to for this podcast just about a year ago,

has been having a ridiculous month of June.

First, his movie Fire Island, which he wrote and co-stars in with S&L's Bowen Yang,

premiered to rave reviews on Hulu.

Then, earlier this week, his first hour-long stand-up special, Psychosexual, dropped on Netflix.

And today is the premiere of Lute, a new Apple TV Plus show he's

co-starring in with Maya Rudolph and two-time last laugh guest Ron Funches. When we talked last

June, all of this was still on the horizon for Joel, who at that point had just learned that

his movie had found a new home at Hulu after the demise of Quibi.

We talked all about his very unique upbringing, the development of his quote,

hot idiot persona, and so much more. So if you have joined the bandwagon since it first aired,

this one's for you. Here's my conversation with Joel Kim Booster. So yeah, have you been able to

do much stand-up in recent weeks, months? You know, it's only starting to come back for me now. I've

done a couple of outdoor shows over the last month or so, and it's been good. I mean, it's been wild. It's, I feel a little bit

bad for the audiences. I feel like they're, they're paying money to watch me, uh, learn how to do

this again. But, um, I think everybody's just happy to be at a show in general. So it works out for

both people. But I'm headlining at the Irvine Improv for the first time. It'll be my first headlining set in over a year,

well over a year at this point. And so I'm excited and I'm very nervous about that. Yeah. I mean,

it's crazy just how upended stand-up has been, you know, because I think most stand-ups who I talk to,

it's like, you know, you have to, you have to do it on such a consistent

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