South Beach Sessions - Ari Shaffir

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Meadowlark Media

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4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

For decades, Ari Shaffir has brought the best stories in comedy to light. Coming from a deeply religious upbringing, Ari’s wild and raunchy path in comedy seems about as far away from seminary as anyone can get. Ari speaks to Dan about his time in the industry and the liberation that comedy provided him after leaving his orthodox Jewish upbringing. Ari talks about what inspired him to bring the best voices in comedy together, to tell their real stories that they couldn’t tell anywhere else. He also details his process making his stand-up special “Jew,” traveling the world honing his material (and realizing that, even after years of religious study, he got some details about the Torah wrong). And, of course, it wouldn’t be a conversation with Ari Shaffir if he and Dan didn’t take a little dive into the world of psychedelics. Ari’s special, “Jew,” is available now on Netflix and watch his hilarious live storytelling show, “The End”, from YMH Studios. Go to AriShaffir.com for podcasts, tour dates, merch, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network.
0:10.7	From Working Title, producers of Bridget Jones and Love Actually.
0:14.5	I'm looking for this girl called Emily.
0:16.2	I'll help you find her.
0:17.5	Comes the truly feel-good British rom-com that's being called a five-star instant classic. Tell me, you didn't hack the school email and message every Emily. Hailed as hilarious and original. Hey, Emily's. It's Notting Hill for a new generation. I don't think I was wrong number. Just didn't write number you, did she? Finding Emily.
0:38.2	Only in Cinema's May 22nd.
0:39.9	Book tickets now.
0:56.1	You need to take a minute or anything? I don't need to take a minute or anything?
0:57.7	I don't need to take a minute.
0:58.8	We've started already.
1:00.2	Who's going to make this weird?
1:02.7	Am I going to make this weird or you're going to make this weird?
1:04.6	He's Ari Shafir.
1:33.9	You probably know him of over 15 years of allowing comics to tell their stories in a way that is really fun. And The New York Times says he's got one of the best comic specials going right now. The name of it is, and I imagine you spell. I'll give you permission. A lot of time on it. Jew is the name of it. And it's being watched a lot. It's particularly timely. And thank you for joining us, by the way. Thanks for having me. How is it going over the special? How did you feel about doing it? And how did you come about naming it? Because it is very simply perfect, and I'm surprised it hadn't been
1:38.7	taken before. Yeah, Jew. Well, they make you in these specials pay by the letter. So I decided to cut it down
1:46.6	and save myself some cash because I paid for myself. No, because that's what it was. I had
1:51.7	other titles like Heretic or something like that or like, but yeah, it's just true. This is all
1:56.4	about, it's me. It's about my, I grew up Orthodox Jewish um which is like the frisbee ones and um yeah it's all
2:04.0	about just growing up like that but also like filthy everyone from the jewish community is like
2:07.5	sort of seen it but they were like we're watching it but we're worried and then they're like no it's
2:12.5	actually really like respectful it's far too filthy but yeah i don't know why I had to say fuck so much when you talk
2:18.8	about the Bible, but okay. It also games the algorithm, right? It gets a whole lot of people
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