The Circus of Love w/ Zach Zucker | First Date with Lauren Compton

First Date with Lauren Compton

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Sexuality, Comedy, Relationships, Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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SPONSORS: -Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at https://shopify.com/date On this episode of First Date, Lauren Compton links up with comedian, producer, and actual clown 🤡 Zach Zucker — and things get weird in the best way. Here's what they dive into: 🔹 Life in a traveling circus 🎪 🔹 Clown school in France (yes, that’s real) 🔹 Working with Sacha Baron Cohen 🎬 🔹 Love bombing 💣 (and how it can go horribly wrong) 🔹 Breakups & hard truths 💔 (ouch) 🔹 Why guys hang out like cavemen and girls plan a whole event 🧍‍♂️ 🧍‍♀️ 🔹 The perfect first date move 🍣 (spoiler: it’s always sushi) Plus, Zach spills all about his unhinged, must-see live show Stamp Town 🎭 📲 Follow Zach on IG https://www.instagram.com/zach_zucker 🎫 Grab tickets to Stamp Town at https://stamptowncomedy.com First Date Ep. 99 https://www.tiktok.com/@iamlaurencompton https://store.ymhstudios.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:21 - We Are Out There 00:03:28 - The Traveling Orgy 00:10:23 - The Hard Truth 00:16:30 - Dropping Love Bombs 00:17:24 - Main Course Questions 00:20:23 - The Boy Hang 00:24:04 - What's The Move? 00:29:43 - This Song Sucks 00:35:04 - Clown School 00:40:31 - Dessert Question 00:43:05 - I Don't Like My Birthday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm so excited to see you tonight.
0:06.0	First date, baby.
0:09.7	First date.
0:11.2	I can't wait.
0:14.0	First date.
0:18.2	Hello, and welcome to another episode of First Date with me as your host, Lauren Compton.
0:23.6	My guest today is an award-winning performer and producer.
0:27.9	I'm going to read this right off the screen, as well as the host of Stampedown.
0:32.0	You'll have to tell me more about that.
0:33.1	I would love to.
0:33.8	You can find out more about him on Instagram at Zach underscore Zucker and get tickets to see his comedy at Stamptowncomedy.com.
0:44.4	What is Stamptown?
0:45.6	Good question.
0:46.5	Stamptown is the name of my production company as well as a variety show that I host and run.
0:51.8	So it's like a vaudevillian, fun, clowny variety show with like circus and burlesque and dance
0:57.4	and magic and music and really anything but non-traditional stand-up for no reason than
1:02.8	other than like I just like don't know how to do it well.
1:06.9	So I was just like, let me lean into my strengths.
1:08.8	Like let's get all like the freaks and all the people who, like, aren't getting booked on the other stuff.
1:13.0	And let's put together the rowdiest, fun, sauciest little show we possibly can.
1:16.6	When is your show?
1:17.9	I know that this podcast is going to come out.
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