Larry, welcome to Killed by Punk, which is Chris and My's offshoot of Turned Out of Punk.

And it's an honor to have you here.

Thank you very much. I like the title very much. It seems to sum up a lot of very important things.

Yeah, definitely. And you know, as somebody who, you know, is a comedy writer and a comedian, like, I can't tell you how much your work has, like, had a profound effect on me and how much, also just in the basic most functionality of comedy has made me laugh. And, you know, like, so, yeah, and I love comedy samurai. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed that book.

Well, I mean, again, not to make this a mutual admiration society, but I love your stand-up. Your stand-up makes me laugh out loud. Oh, thank you. I loved your show with Frankie. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. That was a great show. My wife and I would watch that. We loved it. I was actually visibly angry when it did not come back. I guess it was. Oh, thank you. Two seasons. Yeah, two seasons.

I thought it was great. And I was kind of angry. I thought, you know, they're prejudiced. There's something

why would they possibly not want to pick up this show?

You know, it's so pleased.

But, you know, I see that not to, not to relegate you to some ethnic ghetto,

but I see that happening with a lot of ethnic shows where they're really funny.

They're great.

They're relatable.

They're universal. And then the show gets shit-canned for some reason. I mean, Moe O'Meer had a show that was really good. Yeah, that's right. You know, there's a couple examples of that, you know? I think it's the age of streaming. You know what I mean? Like, it's also the age of streaming. I mean, I was reading an article recently in that like in the age of like streaming TV how little shelf time things have like you kind of you know

as like I remember hearing Seinfeld like the network was a little worried the first or second season

but they kept it going and it really found its legs on that third season that everybody seems to always

reference that it's like amazing and you know I think in a I don't think they have the patience

for that anymore you know well I think you're right I mean Seinfeld would not have survived

this era yeah that was a time of only network TV.

There was no cable.

There was no streaming.

And NBC didn't have anything better to put on the air.

So they were like that.

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