Today's guest has no idea what he's going to say when he steps on stage.

Oh, God. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

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.

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.

They have to put me on a leash in the green room.

And when my name gets called, they take me off the leash.

I'm like, ah, greg me out there.

Let me do a speech.

This is the Last Laugh.

I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and that was comedian Rory Scoville in his new

fully improvised stand-up special, Live Without Fear.

Or is it live without fear?

That is just one of the many questions we explore

in this surprisingly deep conversation

about the art of stand-of-of-comedy,

the legacy of Conan O'Brien,

and Rory's dramatic transformation

opposite Rose Byrne

in the new Apple TV Plus show, Physical.

This is such a fun episode,

so I do not want to waste any more time before we get to it.

Here's me with Rory Scoville. I feel like our timing is kind of perfect because, one, we're talking

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