Rory Scovel Returns: ‘Religion, Sex and a Few Things in Between’

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Comedian Rory Scovel has never really known what he was going to say when he walked onto the stand-up stage. But that all changed when he decided—20 years into his career—to finally do the “homework” of actually writing a complete and cohesive hour. The result is his new special, ‘Religion, Sex and a Few Things in Between,’ which Scovel describes as the “tightest” set of material he’s ever produced (and is streaming now on Max). In his return to the podcast for this bonus episode, Scovel discusses how this new approach changed his experience on stage, how he still strives to stay ultra-present in his work and why he has decided to lean into politics (with an eye on George Carlin) for his next act.

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0:00.0	This is The Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilson from The Daily Beast, and I'm thrilled today to welcome back on the podcast, one of my personal favorite stand-up comedians.
0:14.9	His new special, Religion, Sex, and A Few Things in Between is streaming now on Max.
0:20.5	Thanks for being here, Rory Scoville. Yeah, thank Max. Thanks for being here, Roy Scoville.
0:22.4	Yeah, thank you.
0:23.1	Thanks for having me.
0:23.9	I appreciate it.
0:25.1	Yeah, it's so fun to have you on the podcast again,
0:27.5	and I just got a chance to see your new special,
0:29.9	and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
0:31.7	I'll tell you that,
0:32.4	but I did feel personally attacked very early on.
0:36.2	I think within about the first five minutes of the
0:38.4	special, you're making fun of the name Matt. Yeah, I think that falls about seven, eight minutes,
0:44.3	you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the mats out there are just going to be furious, I think.
0:48.2	Well, I'm trying to, you know, build friction, and I want to do sort of acceptable friction where I just call out one specific name
0:57.5	throughout history and push those people away from me.
1:00.4	Yeah, I will say for people exactly my age, and I'm maybe a few years younger than you,
1:04.9	it is a very popular name.
1:06.8	So I think it's going to be quite a lot of people you're pissing off.
1:09.6	I'm 25 years old.
1:11.0	Oh. Oh.
1:14.5	Yeah, I think I'm 43, and so, yeah, I think there's probably a lot of mats.
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