Mark Schiff, WHY NOT?: Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Zibby interviews master comedian and long-time touring partner of Jerry Seinfeld, Mark Schiff, about his hilarious and brilliantly honest collection of essays, Why Not?: Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Chutzpah. Mark shares the details of his life story, including his weight loss journey, the trauma he survived as a child, and finding a home in the Jewish community. He also talks about his career in comedy (from bombing his first show at 18 to touring internationally with Jerry Seinfeld) and shares his best advice for aspiring writers and humorists.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Mark Irwin Schiff is the author of Why Not,
1:05.8	Lessons on Comedy, Courage, and Hutzpah. Mark is a stand-of comedian who has
1:09.6	headlined at comedy clubs nationwide,
1:11.5	including all the major casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. He has toured worldwide with
1:16.3	Jerry Seinfeld for 15 years. Mark has had specials on HBO and Showtime, appeared multiple
1:21.5	times on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson and late night with David Letterman. He's featured
1:25.9	in Seinfeld's Netflix special, Jerry
1:28.1	Before Seinfeld, and live from the Laugh Factory with Dom Irara and has been the featured act
1:34.1	at the Montreal Just for Laugh's Comedy Festival. He is the co-editor of I Killed, True Stories of
1:39.2	The Road from America's Top Comics, co-authored the playwright Married People with Steve Schaffer, which played two
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