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Raanan Hershberg I Greg Fitzsimmons - FitzDog Podcast

Fitzdog Radio

Greg Fitzsimmons

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Subscribe to Greg Fitzsimmons: https://bit.ly/subGregFitz Greg Fitzsimmons sits down with comedian Raanan Hershberg for a loose, hilarious conversation covering nightmare gigs, hecklers, conspiracy theories, New York comedy, addiction, arena crowds, podcast politics, clean comedy, and the weird realities of life on the road. Greg may or may not be chemically balanced during this episode, but somehow the conversation only gets sharper as it goes. Plus: stories about Tacoma fights, college comedy circuits, Dave Attell, Rogan backlash, Vince Champ, and Raanan’s new short film “Memory Room.” Check out Raanan’s specials, including “Morbidly Jewish,” on YouTube and follow him at @raanancomedy. This show is produced by Gotham Production Studios and part of the Gotham Network. https://www.gothamproductionstudios.com/studios/ Follow Greg Fitzsimmons: Facebook: https://facebook.com/FitzdogRadio Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregfitzsimmons Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregfitzshow Official Website: http://gregfitzsimmons.com Tour Dates: https://bit.ly/GregFitzTour Merch: https://bit.ly/GregFitzMerch “Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons” Book: https://amzn.to/2Z2bB82 “Life on Stage” Comedy Special: https://bit.ly/GregFitzSpecial Listen to Greg Fitzsimmons: Fitzdog Radio: https://bit.ly/FitzdogRadio Sunday Papers: http://bit.ly/SundayPapersPod Childish: http://childishpod.com Watch more Greg Fitzsimmons: Latest Uploads: https://bit.ly/latestGregFitz Fitzdog Radio: https://bit.ly/radioGregFitz Sunday Papers: https://bit.ly/sundayGregFitz Stand Up Comedy: https://bit.ly/comedyGregFitz Popular Videos: https://bit.ly/popGregFitz About Greg Fitzsimmons: Mixing an incisive wit with scathing sarcasm, Greg Fitzsimmons is an accomplished stand-up, an Emmy Award winning writer, and a host on TV, radio and his own podcasts. Greg is host of the popular “FitzDog Radio” podcast (https://bit.ly/FitzdogRadio), as well as “Sunday Papers” with co-host Mike Gibbons (http://bit.ly/SundayPapersPod) and “Childish” with co-host Alison Rosen (http://childishpod.com). A regular with Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel, Greg also frequents “The Joe Rogan Experience,” “Lights Out with David Spade,” and has made more than 50 visits to “The Howard Stern Show.” Howard gave Greg his own show on Sirius/XM which lasted more than 10 years. Greg’s one-hour standup special, “Life On Stage,” was named a Top 10 Comedy Release by LA Weekly. The special premiered on Comedy Central and is now available on Amazon Prime, as a DVD, or a download (https://bit.ly/GregFitzSpecial). Greg’s 2011 book, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons (https://amzn.to/2Z2bB82), climbed the best-seller charts and garnered outstanding reviews from NPR and Vanity Fair. Greg appeared in the Netflix series “Santa Clarita Diet,” the Emmy-winning FX series “Louie,” spent five years as a panelist on VH1’s “Best Week Ever,” was a reoccurring panelist on “Chelsea Lately,” and starred in two half-hour stand-up specials on Comedy Central. Greg wrote and appeared on the Judd Apatow HBO series “Crashing.” Writing credits include HBO’s “Lucky Louie,” “Cedric the Entertainer Presents,” “Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher,” “The Man Show” and many others. On his mantle beside the four Daytime Emmys he won as a writer and producer on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” sit “The Jury Award for Best Comedian” from The HBO Comedy Arts Festival and a Cable Ace Award for hosting the MTV game show "Idiot Savants." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

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0:49.4

That's right. Hi, welcome to Fitzdog Radio. My guest, Ron on, like run on sentence.

0:56.0

Hirshberg will be here in a minute, full disclosure for this podcast. I just recorded it with him, and I did explain this to him, but I'll just mention it briefly.

1:01.2

I woke up this morning.

1:02.7

I have extreme ADD, so I have a lot of pills I take.

1:06.3

Some are in a morning case, some are at the nighttime case.

1:10.6

I woke up this morning and I took my nighttime

1:12.6

pills, which include a sleeping pill. I am currently on 20 milligrams of Lunesta. So to counteract

1:19.9

that, I took Ritalin and three cups of coffee. And this is an experiment right now, and we'll see how it works out.

1:30.7

But I feel good.

1:32.2

My mouth is a little bit dry, and I'm gassy, but I'm going to hold that in for the sake of the people that work here in the studio.

1:40.7

Matt Peters is here, who is the producer of the show from New York, and Amber is here, who's the producer of the show from L.A. They work together to bring you this show. So I want to thank both of them from my heart. Thank you for doing this, you guys.

2:00.6

Getting very emotional on all these drugs.

2:04.2

So let's talk about, I did a gig. I was in Seattle this weekend, and I flew up, and it was at this

2:11.8

very ritzie private club, and I went up on stage and it's very weird to have people out there that are

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