Rory Scovel Has No Idea What He’s Doing

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Rory Scovel never knows exactly what he’s going to say when he steps on stage. But in his latest stand-up special ‘Live Without Fear,’ he threw out the script altogether and performed six consecutive nights of fully improvised material. On the other end of the creative spectrum, Scovel recently took on a major role opposite Rose Byrne in the Apple TV+ series ‘Physical.’ He joins the podcast this week for a surprisingly deep conversation about his unlikely path from experimental comedian to mainstream actor.

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0:00.0	Today's guest has no idea what he's going to say when he steps on stage.
0:06.6	Oh, God. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.
0:12.7	I love getting up here. I tell him, I go, get me up there. Get me. Let me unleash. That's what I'll say. I must have said it a hundred times in the green room.
0:24.0	I said, get me out there. Unleash me. People wonder what's it like in the green room. They got to put me on a leash.
0:33.0	They have to put me on a leash in the green room.
0:38.3	And when my name gets called, they take me off the leash.
0:41.7	I'm like, ah, greg me out there.
0:45.6	Let me do a speech.
0:47.5	This is the Last Laugh.
0:56.6	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was comedian Rory Scoville in his new
1:02.4	fully improvised stand-up special, Live Without Fear.
1:06.5	Or is it live without fear?
1:08.9	That is just one of the many questions we explore
1:11.6	in this surprisingly deep conversation
1:13.8	about the art of stand-of-of-comedy,
1:16.3	the legacy of Conan O'Brien,
1:18.2	and Rory's dramatic transformation
1:20.1	opposite Rose Byrne
1:21.6	in the new Apple TV Plus show, Physical.
1:24.5	This is such a fun episode,
1:26.7	so I do not want to waste any more time before we get to it.
1:30.7	Here's me with Rory Scoville. I feel like our timing is kind of perfect because, one, we're talking
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