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Why Are You Laughing?

The Roast of Patrice O'Neal

Why Are You Laughing?

Blind Mike Project

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

5721 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Today Mike and Craig look back at the highs and low of Patrice O'Neal roast.

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0:00.0

You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.

0:02.0

We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.

0:05.0

Stop laughing.

0:08.0

And when I do, start fucking.

0:11.0

Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.

0:15.0

Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.

0:19.0

You fucking guys are unbelievable.

0:22.9

Why are you laughing?

0:24.5

Evening everybody, welcome to another episode of Why You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

0:28.3

And today, I am pleased to introduce to you the roast of Patrice O'Neill.

0:32.6

Those of you that have been with us since the beginning, though, around this time of year.

0:36.4

We lost the great Patrice O'Neill, November 29th, 2011.

0:40.5

Crazy that it's been 12 years already.

0:42.7

So this is typically the time of year we do our Patrice episode.

0:46.6

And today I decided to do the roast of Patrice, because we still hear a lot about it,

0:50.9

specifically two stories that we'll get to at the end.

0:54.7

There are two moments from this roast that live on today that you hear get mentioned on

0:59.6

comedy podcasts and things like that.

1:02.9

But also, it's interesting to me, this is kind of a roast for the sake of the comedians,

1:08.4

which is pretty rare in the sense that we had, we, we, we, I had to make a choice when pulling these clips.

1:15.8

We chose the audio version.

1:17.8

This is, there's no video to go along today because it's good audio.

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