The Funniest Performances of 2020!
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate the end of this absurd year, Matt Wilstein is joined by The Daily Beast’s Laura Bradley to share their lists of the funniest performances of 2020. They include some previous ‘Last Laugh’ guests (Sam Jay! Jordan Klepper!) and a whole bunch of comedians who will hopefully join us on the show in the future.
See our full list of the 20 funniest performances of 2020 at The Daily Beast:
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein, and I want to welcome to today's show, my friend and fellow writer from The Daily Beast, Laura Bradley. Welcome, Laura. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, thanks for having me. So you are here because today we are counting down our top five funniest performances of the year. |
| 0:22.8 | And this is something that I've been writing on the website for the past few years. |
| 0:26.6 | It's actually sort of part of what inspired the idea to do this podcast in the first place |
| 0:31.2 | as I was making these lists of comedy people that I love. |
| 0:34.9 | And I was like, I want to talk to these people on a podcast. |
| 0:37.3 | So that's sort of how this all started. But what I wanted to do I want to talk to these people on a podcast. So that's |
| 0:37.6 | sort of how this all started. But what I wanted to do, and we haven't done it on the podcast before, |
| 0:42.2 | is really go through these lists and talk about the year in comedy, which was this year, |
| 0:47.7 | a particularly strange one, I think. I mean, yeah, new platforms, Jim Carrey, Joe Biden, |
| 0:53.6 | lots to talk about this year. Yeah, not probably the funniest year, |
| 0:58.0 | but still a lot of comedy in the year. Possibly one of the weirdest years. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, |
| 1:03.5 | I mean, as you said, there's been sort of new ways of doing comedy this year, I think, especially |
| 1:08.5 | with Zoom where, you know, stand-up comedy moved |
| 1:12.0 | out of the clubs and onto Zoom, which is something that I've talked to a lot of my guests about |
| 1:16.4 | over this past year and how strange that's been and how some people handle it really well and |
| 1:20.6 | some people hate it and don't like doing it at all. And then there's also people doing outdoor shows |
| 1:25.5 | and drive-in shows. And that's been very weird. And then there's also people doing outdoor shows and drive-in shows. And that's been very |
| 1:28.1 | weird. And then there's also, you know, something like TikTok where people are using this new |
| 1:32.8 | platform in new ways as well. I guess to start, are there things that happened this year in terms of |
| 1:37.4 | in those worlds that really stood out to you and these new forms of comedy? I mean, I definitely |
| 1:43.0 | was interested immediately with Sarah Cooper, |
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