Josh Johnson: Reinventing the Modern Comedy Special

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Best of WIO: Josh Johsnon (Recorded March 2025) Comedian Josh Johnson is a writer and correspondent for The Daily Show and his stand-up sets have millions of views on YouTube. Josh talks with Mike about cultivating a fan base via the YouTube videos, why he thinks chasing success in the comedy industry is sometimes antithetical to the art form, and shares the advice he got from Trevor Noah. Plus, Josh helps Mike work out a new story about animals living in Mike's walls. Please consider donating to Feeding America

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0:00.0	You have this joke about how, where you say COVID killed millions of people, but somehow everyone I owed money to lived.
0:06.3	Oh, yeah.
0:06.8	Who do you owe money to?
0:08.5	We've settled the deaths now.
0:11.1	Okay.
0:11.7	We're in a much better place.
0:13.3	But at the time of taping, I was like, man.
0:22.3	Happy holidays, everybody.
0:27.2	It's Mike Barbiglia, and that is the voice of the great Josh Johnson.
0:31.5	This is a re-air of one of my favorite episodes from this year.
0:42.4	It's with Josh Johnson, one of the people who had kind of a seminal career year. I mean, he exploded this year. I mean, he went from being an extremely popular touring comedian to being one of the hosts of the Daily Show. He puts out
0:49.8	these regular specials on YouTube, on his YouTube channel.
0:55.0	They're seen by millions and millions, sometimes tens of millions of people.
0:59.4	And they're fantastic.
1:01.1	He's a true, true original.
1:03.4	Thanks to everybody this year who signed up for Working Out Premium.
1:06.0	We're about to drop another bonus episode that was really fun with my wife, Jenny.
1:11.1	There's more bonus content coming.
1:13.5	Thanks to everyone who signed up for the text message alerts.
1:16.0	We're announcing some small club shows in Philadelphia, Palm Beach, Madison, Wisconsin, Buffalo, Raleigh, Los Angeles, and Nashville.
1:25.0	To be the first to know, text Burbig's B-I-R-B-I-G-S to the phone number 917-44-7-1-5-0 to be the first to know about those shows.
1:36.8	I will be appearing in the Broadway show All Out, January 13 through 18, alongside Beck Bennett,
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