Nick Kroll Gets Away With ‘Crazy Sh*t’

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🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Nick Kroll is an actor, stand-up comedian and co-creator of one of the funniest shows on television, ‘Big Mouth.’ Season three of the Emmy-nominated animated series just dropped on Netflix and Nick is here to talk about its unique place in pop culture. He also weighs in on ‘Joker’ director Todd Phillips’ controversial comments about “woke” culture and comedy, shares the story of auditioning for SNL alongside John Mulaney, teases the upcoming ‘Big Mouth’ spinoff show and a lot more. Follow @nickkroll and @mattwilstein on Twitter and @lastlaughpod on Instagram. Get ticket for Nick’s “Middle-Aged Boy Tour” at nickkroll.com. Highlights from this episode and others at The Daily Beast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, spring, a new season has begun.
0:05.0	And as the days grow longer like so many math class boners, the dreams they grow wetter.
0:13.0	For April showers bring Austin powers.
0:16.0	Do I make you hoody, baby?
0:19.0	Season three will. Hello and welcome to the last laugh i'm matt wilstein from
0:25.8	the daily beast my guest this week is nick kroll and you just heard the opening moments of
0:31.3	big mouth season three which just started streaming on netflix earlier this month i talked to nick
0:37.0	the monday morning after that show went, and he broke down some of the
0:40.3	feedback he was already starting to receive from fans who binged the whole thing over the weekend.
0:45.3	Since the movie Joker had come out that same weekend, I was curious to know what Nick
0:49.3	thought about director Todd Phillips saying that he basically stopped making comedies because, quote, woke culture was
0:55.9	making it too hard to be funny. To me, Big Mouth is the perfect example of why that is
1:01.4	total nonsense, and I think Nick's response really helped explain why that's the case.
1:06.7	Do you have ideas for comedians who you want to hear on the show? Please let us know by going on Apple Podcasts and leaving a rating and review and telling us who you want to hear.
1:16.1	But now, let's hear my conversation with Nick Kroll.
1:20.1	Take your time.
1:21.1	Not catching up just in trying not to fall behind.
1:25.5	Exactly.
1:27.6	All right.
1:28.5	I understand.
1:29.5	How's this?
1:29.9	Is this okay?
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