Jon Gabrus: ‘101 Places to Party Before You Die’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Jon Gabrus didn’t realize he had spent his entire comedy career preparing to travel around the country getting wasted and being hilarious on camera. But that’s exactly what he has ended up doing, along with his best friend and co-host Adam Pally, in their new truTV series ‘101 Places to Party Before You Die.’ In this episode, Gabrus talks about landing his “dream job” as a travel host and explains why the “before you die” in the show’s title resonates with him so deeply. He also talks about the origins of his incompetent intern character Gino Lombardo on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast, tells the story of his embarrassingly terrible ‘Veep’ audition in front of his comedy crush Julia-Louis Dreyfus and reveals why he once quit smoking pot in hopes of joining the FBI.
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| 0:00.0 | My guest on today's episode is here to promote his new travel show. |
| 0:04.1 | But for legions of Comedy Bang Bang fans like me, he will always be best known as intern Gino Lombardo. |
| 0:12.8 | Sound speeds. |
| 0:14.5 | Wait a minute. |
| 0:15.7 | I know those two words. |
| 0:17.1 | Sound speeds. |
| 0:17.8 | Let's roll it, boys. |
| 0:19.3 | It's our current intern. This gino hello yeah hi what's |
| 0:24.3 | going on scott yeah i got what's going on i got a report that uh you're uh you need someone to like |
| 0:30.1 | press i forget it was press record press pause we've been doing the show for a long time at this |
| 0:35.1 | place but i just i you know the the the light went up you know, like, hey, interns, Scott needs a hand. |
| 0:40.3 | The intern, Gino signal? Is that what you mean? |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah, yeah, it's weird. It's just an Italian sub that they shine up in the air. |
| 0:51.6 | This is the last laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was comedian John Gabris with Scott |
| 0:58.9 | Ackerman on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast. |
| 1:02.0 | I am so excited that he answered the call of the Italian sub and is here with us today. |
| 1:07.5 | As I tell John in this episode, I first became aware of his work through Comedy Bang Bang, |
| 1:12.7 | and had the insane honor of sitting in the recording booth when he was part of an all-star |
| 1:18.0 | lineup for that show's 500th episode back in 2017. Alongside Nick Kroll, Jason Manzukas, |
| 1:25.8 | Paul F. Tompkins, and others, John was probably the least famous comedian in that room, but he also may have been the funniest. |
| 1:34.3 | Now, John, who got his start performing improv at UCB in the early 2000s, and has since popped up in shows like Drunk History and What We we do in the shadows, is co-hosting |
| 1:45.2 | a really fun new travel show on True TV with his friend and former last laugh guest, |
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