Sam Morril Is the ‘Taylor Swift of Comedy’

The Last Laugh

The Daily Beast

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Comedian Sam Morril is so prolific that he managed to release two full-length stand-up specials in 2020 when most comics couldn’t even get on stage. In this episode, we talk about how he pulled off ‘I Got This’ and ‘Up on the Roof,’ both of which are available to stream for free on YouTube now, plus his unique outlook on the power of “offensive” jokes, his unexpected cameo in ‘Joker’ and a lot more.

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0:00.0	Today's guest is better than almost any other comedian at mining the darkest parts of his own story for laughs.
0:08.7	Just ran to my biological father on the street.
0:11.7	I was telling my friend about it and he was like, is your biological father a good person?
0:15.5	I was like, if he were, I probably wouldn't refer to him as my biological father.
0:19.8	Take a little more ownership over that.
0:22.5	I look exactly like him, though.
0:24.4	I show my friend a picture. He was like, oh, my God.
0:27.1	It's like you guys were separated at birth.
0:29.6	We were.
0:36.9	This is the Last Laugh.
0:39.0	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week I am just thrilled to welcome
0:43.7	one of my favorite stand-up comics on the scene right now, Sam Morel.
0:48.7	After a year in which clubs shut down and comics were mostly forced off of the stage,
0:56.5	Sam somehow managed to become what his ex-girlfriend comedian Taylor Tomlinson recently referred to as the Taylor Swift of
1:01.9	stand-up comedy by releasing not one but two new hour-long specials in 2020. But, you know,
1:09.0	that's about where the Taylor Swift similarities in.
1:11.9	Sam is one of the darkest joke tellers out there and is not afraid to offend people to make a
1:17.1	comedic point, something we discuss at length during this conversation. We also talk about why he
1:22.5	decided to release his specials for free on YouTube after facing rejection from all of the major streamers, and what
1:29.3	it was like to perform on rooftops all over New York City for his most recent hour up on the roof.
1:35.2	Okay, let's get into it. This is me with Sam Morel. Thank you for doing this. The main reason why I wanted to talk to you on the podcast
1:44.0	is because if I'm not mistaken, I believe you are the only comedian to release two full specials in 2020.
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