Stand Up Comedy with Tourette's with Benny Feldman

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

Benny Feldman is one of the funniest new comics working today. He also has Tourette Syndrome, a neurological condition characterized by involuntary vocalizations and tics. Not only does this give Benny a unique rhythm to his performances, it also has helped him develop a fascinating personal understanding of how humor even works. This week, Adam talks with Benny about Tourette’s, comedy, and the power that comes with understanding yourself.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:21.6	I don't know anything.
0:27.5	Hey there, welcome to Factually.
0:29.2	I'm Adam Conover.
0:30.2	Thanks for joining me on the show again.
0:31.8	You know, normally on this show, at least when we got started, we were only having
0:35.3	experts, authors, scientists, journalists, people like that.
0:39.6	The more we've done this show, the more I just wanted to have on people who I think are interesting,
0:44.2	who I really want to talk to, who I think have a interesting perspective on the world that you
0:48.7	might not have heard before and that can show you how things look from their little corner of
0:53.1	the universe. And we have one of those
0:54.8	interviews for you today. This week on the show, I have one of my very favorite new comics who I think
1:01.3	you probably haven't heard of, but I think you're going to hear a lot more about soon.
1:05.1	His name is Benny Feldman. I saw him for the first time in New York a couple years ago.
1:09.2	He's an absolutely incredible, unique joke writer with a very strange way of looking at the
1:15.4	world.
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