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Le Batard & Friends - South Beach Sessions

Josh Johnson

Le Batard & Friends - South Beach Sessions

Dan Le Batard, Stugotz

Sports, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.915K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Josh Johnson is writing all the internet’s favorite jokes.  The Emmy-nominated writer and correspondent on “The Daily Show” shares with Dan how he’s been building a community through his unique, topical stand-up every week on YouTube (to millions of views). With Dan, Josh takes on the biggest topics of today… like the gaming habits of billionaires, the loneliness epidemic, and, yeah, Luigi Mangione.  Josh also opens up about the loss of his father, his time in therapy, and what it was like for him going from a grocery store clerk to a writer for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”.  See Josh live on his “Flowers Tour,” tickets are available at joshjohnsoncomedy.com. Watch and subscribe to Josh's YouTube channel with new weekly content @JoshJohnsonComedy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is a minute. Hello, welcome to South Beach sessions.

0:48.3

I'm saying this to this man right here and to you as well, because I'm excited to have this conversation with Josh Johnson,

0:54.4

because, among other things, a hot comedian who's doing stand-up comedy differently,

1:00.7

he's been an Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show and other shows.

1:04.4

I am fascinated how all this came to be.

1:07.5

You're awfully young to have had some of the successes that you have now in doing

1:13.3

the stage work that is different than just about anybody is doing these days because you're doing

1:18.2

it topically. You're a content furnace. You're able to do comedy sets from club to club that

1:23.8

change with the news. That's not something that's been seen too much in my experience

1:29.2

in this field, which means you're trying to change the form a bit. Are you not? And thank you and

1:34.3

welcome for being on the show. If I have anything wrong and have talked at you, please tell me,

1:38.3

because I'm trying to tell the audience who you are and why I admire you because I don't

1:41.6

understand how any of this came to be. Yeah, I mean, I just, I guess I just don't do anything else. So that helps. Like, if you just,

1:49.1

if you just, uh, write as much as you can all the time, then, you know, you do end up in a,

1:55.3

in a place where you have a lot to bring to the next show for the next night or the next city.

2:01.6

And I think because I am like naturally off by myself a little bit, this is something that's been leading up to this moment of how I've always been mixed with what I'm really passionate about, which is, which is stand-up.

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