The Funniest Performances of 2021!
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
As we get to the end of the year, host Matt Wilstein is joined by The Daily Beast’s Laura Bradley to share their lists of the funniest performances of 2021, including previous podcast guests (Busy Philipps! Nicole Byer!) and more of the biggest names in comedy who made us laugh the hardest this year.
See our full list of the 20 funniest performances of 2021 at The Daily Beast.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein, and I am so excited to be joined for this special |
| 0:10.4 | year-end episode by my fellow Daily Beast writer, Laura Bradley. Welcome back, Laura. Hello, |
| 0:17.1 | thank you for having me. Yeah, we are back for the second consecutive year |
| 0:21.5 | counting down our picks for the funniest performances of the year. So I am so just thrilled |
| 0:27.4 | to have you back on the podcast to do this because it was so fun last year. Yeah, it was. I'm |
| 0:31.2 | really excited to be back. What was it like for you putting together the list this year? |
| 0:36.4 | So it was not too hard. |
| 0:38.3 | It was a lot of good comedy this year, I think. |
| 0:40.6 | I mean, when we did this in 2020, it was, I mean, for all kinds of reasons, obviously |
| 0:45.8 | 2020 was an insane year. |
| 0:47.7 | And I think it was a year that people were still trying to figure out how to be funny in our |
| 0:52.1 | new world. |
| 0:53.4 | We were trying to figure out how to be in our new new world. We were trying to figure out how to be in our new... |
| 0:56.0 | Well, that's a good point. |
| 0:56.9 | First be and then be funny. |
| 0:59.1 | But yeah, so I think there was definitely more stuff that I enjoyed, I think, that came out |
| 1:04.4 | this year. |
| 1:05.0 | And it was interesting because it was all stuff really, for the most part, made during |
| 1:08.2 | the pandemic, I think, because people, you know, that's what we |
| 1:11.2 | saw this year was stuff made last year. So yeah, there was a lot of good stuff. What about you? What, |
| 1:15.4 | what was it like for you to kind of look back and think about what made you laugh this year? |
| 1:19.7 | I'm not going to lie. I think the sort of weirdest part was realizing that some of these |
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