Mastering Our Morning Routines, Starting New Projects, and the Lincoln Memorial Swimming Pool
Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness
Sony Music
4.9 • 21.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Monday edit. This week, like every week, we are joined by our |
| 0:05.9 | executive producer, Chris. Say hi, Chris. |
| 0:07.5 | Bonjour. Y'all, this week, I'm on UK tour. I am giving you God save the king. I'm giving |
| 0:13.0 | where's Camilla. I'm touring all over this, my husband's homeland. I just got to play London. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm going to Nottingham, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow. |
| 0:22.9 | Y'all, it's, I love to hit the road. I love this show. I've been really honing in on the comedy. |
| 0:29.8 | I've been like, I've been in this phase right now, y'all, with my stand-up where I'm like |
| 0:34.3 | punching everything up. And I, that's like where you just like |
| 0:38.2 | kind of rewrite jokes and like do new setups and new punchlines like jazz it up and it's been |
| 0:43.4 | really fun and also while I'm in England let me look at my calendar to make sure I get the day right |
| 0:49.0 | so if anyone wants to kill me they'll be right there and like ready to go. Um, but we're staying at Babington |
| 0:55.8 | House, which is this like, it's like this, it's giving like countryside because normally when |
| 1:00.8 | we tour, you know, it's just like a club, another club, a bus, a plane. It's just like go, go, go. But we get a day |
| 1:08.0 | off and we're staying at like Babington House, Babington House, and they've got |
| 1:12.8 | like tennis, they've got a spa. I'm going to play tennis with my friend Travis Alabanzah. |
| 1:17.9 | Yeah, I'm so excited. And also Travis's opening low key for us like because I also haven't been |
| 1:24.9 | having an opener. Yeah. Kind of selfishly because I want all of the time to work the show out because it really needs to be an hour. But I'm like at an hour 20 right now. And I'm like, ooh, like an hour in 45, it's just like too much time. Like I just, but Travis is like just I have to have Travis. And they're just like amazing. And I used to tour with them all the time, and they're hysterical. |
| 1:45.2 | So if you're in Bristol, you're going to get a special treat. But they were going to give you our best, like, Venus and, like, Leila Fernandez, only because Therina is not playing anymore in Venus is. But we're just going to give you, like, doubles vibes, except for I think we might be playing, I think we might play each other, like friendily. |
| 2:01.6 | But Travis has really become like a sleigh tennis player. |
| 2:04.7 | You know, doubles vibes, except for I think we might be playing, I think we might play each other, like friendly. |
| 2:01.6 | But Travis has really become like a sleigh tennis player. You know Travis, don't you? I don't know, Travis. We've interviewed Travis on the podcast before, of course. But I, but I've never met. In IRR. Oh, my gosh, that's a tragedy. I know. You and I have been together at Fire Island in the past when Wimbledon was on. |
| 2:20.1 | And I'm... |
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