"The Next Level of Comedy" with Myq Kaplan

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.6 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Myq is a New York comic who’s been on the Tonight Show, Conan, Letterman, James Corden, Seth Meyers, Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing, and America’s Got Talent. He also introduced Josh to ayahuasca. What happened next?

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0:00.0	Goody, humans. Welcome to Safe Space for Dangerous Ideas and I'm going to level with you. I am. I'm going to level with you right now. I'm going to come clean. I'm going to pull back the curtain. I'm going to fess up. That's what I'm going to do. There's nothing uncomfortable about this episode. Well, maybe you'll find something uncomfortable. Maybe something will make you uncomfortable.
0:21.7	I don't know.
0:22.3	Do you have an aversion to comedians?
0:24.6	Do you have an aversion to hilarity?
0:27.9	Do you have an aversion to chuckles?
0:30.7	To yuck yucks?
0:32.7	If you do, you'll hate this episode.
0:35.9	This is an episode with a comedian who, uh, we don't talk about anything
0:39.1	controversial or uncomfortable. He's just a funny guy and I like him. Mike Kaplan, have you seen
0:45.2	the Tonight Show? You ever heard of the Tonight Show? He's been on it. You ever heard of
0:48.8	Dave Letterman? He's been on Dave's show. You ever heard of Conan O'Brien? He's been on that one too.
0:55.3	You ever heard of late night with Seth Myers?
0:57.5	Me neither.
0:58.6	It's actually good.
0:59.5	Seth's good.
1:00.1	Seth's funny.
1:00.6	He's got good writers.
1:01.5	Well, you know.
1:02.9	So Mike's been on that one as well.
1:05.0	He's done his own half-hour Comedy Central Presents specials. He's done his own Amazon one-hour special called small dork and
1:13.2	handsome. Get it? Because normally it would be tall, dark and handsome, but he's small dork.
1:19.5	And that's the kind of, that's the kind of humor you can expect from Mike in the show today.
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