The Lou Perez Podcast: Dan Smotz

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🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy On this episode I talk with filmmaker and co-host of The System is Down, Dan Smotz, about collapsitarians (my new favorite word), wedding videography, and Who Is Roger Ver? If you’re a paid subscriber to my Substack or the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network you’re hearing this first. Lemme know what you think. Would you survive the end of the world? For how long? Catch me on tour, opening for the brilliant Scott Thompson. (Dates Below) Tickets here: https://newscottlandland.com/live-events Louisville, KY - May 17 Indianapolis, IN - May 18 Buffalo, NY - May 20 Cleveland, OH - May 21 Pittsburgh, PA - May 22 Toronto, CA - May 24 Boston, MA - May 28 Ogunquit, ME - May 30 Stamford, CT - May 31 NYC, NY - June 1 Philadelphia, PA - June 3 Alexandria, VA - June 4 Atlanta, GA - June 10 I’ve been rocking XX-XY Athletics wares. WORK OUT, SPEAK OUT! You can get 20% off your purchase of the perfect burpee gear with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Who am I? Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and author of That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore. You may have seen him on FOX's Gutfeld! and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the head writer and producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV and produces Comedy Is Murder, a sketch comedy series with Free the People. Lou is a FAIR-in-the Arts fellow, on the advisory board of Heresy Press, and hosts the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast. During my tenure at We the Internet, I made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.” How’d I start out? I began doing improv and sketch comedy while an undergrad at New York University, where I was part of the comedy group the Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz. For years, I performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and my comedy duo, Greg and Lou. G&L are probably best known for our sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views across online platforms. I was a writer for Fox Sports' @TheBuzzer; produced The Attendants with the Above Average Network; produced pilots for FOX Digital and MSN Games; and was a comedy producer on TruTV's Impractical Jokers. I hosted the stand-up show Uncle Lou's Safe Place in Los Angeles, performed at the Big Pine Comedy Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and co-created the political comedy podcast Unsafe Space. I’ve opened for Jimmy Dore, Rich Vos, Dave Smith, and Rob Schneider. I’m currently on tour with Scott Thompson. I taught creative writing at the City College of New York, "writing the web series" for Writing Pad, and comedy writing workshops for the Moving Picture Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	That joke isn't funny anymore.
0:01.7	Available on Amazon and everywhere.
0:09.0	Hey guys, welcome back to the Lou Perez podcast on the Lions of Liberty Network.
0:15.1	I'm your host, Lou Perez.
0:17.3	And today I'm joined by my guest.
0:19.1	He's a filmmaker and co-host of the system is down.
0:23.1	Please put your hands together, Mr. Dan Smots.
0:26.7	There we go.
0:27.8	Dan giving himself a round of applause.
0:31.1	Good to be here.
0:32.0	Yeah, thank you for having me, Dan.
0:33.8	So, uh, when I was, when I was, when I was booking, uh, Dan, who was, you know, very kind to come on the show, you know, he asked the normal question that any guest, you know, would ask was, what do you want to talk about? And I was like, oh, God, I don't know what I want to talk about. I'm into a little bit of everything, so it can go wherever you want it to go, man.
0:52.9	Yeah, yeah. Well, the thing that attracting me, for one, I've known Dan for a number of years, like, through the work that he does as a filmmaker.
1:02.8	And he makes really, really great videos, and they're beautifully shot.
1:08.5	And it's nice to, you know, it's nice to,
1:10.9	to see that,
1:11.4	especially in our,
1:12.6	uh,
1:13.0	in the liberty world to see someone who's,
1:15.7	you know,
1:15.9	doing film and then doing it,
1:17.5	uh,
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