RoastMaster General Jeff Ross — Roasted Me
Noah Kagan Presents
Noah Kagan
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Ross aka RoastMaster General is a world-famous comedian featured in Comedy Central, Netflix, and more. I had a lengthy conversation with Jeff the night before one of his shows. We talk about how he got into comedy, generating ideas, and a TON more.
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| 0:00.0 | What is up you beautiful bastards? It's your boy roast beef, aka |
| 0:05.9 | rabbi can't lose, aka noakagan. In today's episode I talked to Jeff Ross. |
| 0:11.0 | Yes, the official roast mastermaster General. Jeff was in Austin to kick off his |
| 0:15.4 | bumping mic store with Davidel and we recorded this the night before right when he |
| 0:19.2 | landed. I went to the show the next day and it was unreal. |
| 0:23.2 | You should definitely check it out if he's near your town. |
| 0:25.8 | You can go to roastmastergeneral.com |
| 0:28.0 | to see dates and locations. |
| 0:29.2 | I highly recommend it, roastmaster general. |
| 0:31.3 | com. |
| 0:31.9 | Jeff Ross learned at a young age how to roast people as a defense mechanism. He has since |
| 0:36.2 | impressively gets paid to now insult people for a living. That's impressive. |
| 0:40.6 | We talk about a bunch of fun topics from being a film major in college to hosting the comedy central roasts, |
| 0:46.1 | Netflix specials, and selling out theaters. Jeff is super busy but still made time to hang out for an hour |
| 0:51.5 | while we taped this episode at midnight before his show. |
| 0:54.7 | Not only is he a stand-up comedian, he is a stand-up person. |
| 0:58.4 | In this conversation, you're going to enjoy three big things. |
| 1:01.6 | Number one, mentors and the older generation, from his mentor buddy Hackett to |
| 1:05.8 | bowling at Eddie Murphy's house. Two, how to enjoy the process, a sign Jeff looks at daily |
| 1:11.3 | and I loved when he said it to me. |
| 1:12.8 | And number three, thinking for yourself and generating your own ideas. |
| 1:17.2 | Enjoy those three things plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way. |
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