4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Josh Johnson discusses pandemic-era absurdities, his terrifying encounter with bees, relearning how to be in the world as an avowed weirdo and getting hit on by his friend's grandma.
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0:00.0 | Up next is a bonus presentation of the one-hour |
0:02.4 | Stay in Up Special, Trevor Noah presents Josh Johnson, hashtag |
1:02.4 | Cool everybody sit down. Thank you so much for coming out good up for |
1:17.3 | yourselves again oh my gosh we're all here we made it oh man it's so great to be |
1:27.5 | here with all of you this is incredible this is absolutely amazing |
1:31.3 | because it means we did it we lived I'm gonna lie I think I didn't think I'd |
1:40.2 | make it I didn't even get COVID I'm just not a survivor that's not how anybody I |
1:48.5 | know would describe me I'll even tell you what a year before the pandemic |
1:54.7 | right fully before the pandemic I was walking in New York just looking up |
1:58.5 | the sky loving my life right just looking up being happy and I stepped off the |
2:04.0 | curb that's all that's happened so far I stepped off the curb and I stepped on a |
2:09.5 | bird okay it's the not a dead bird okay this bird was also walk around not |
2:16.4 | paying attention loving his life we just collided with nature humanity at |
2:23.1 | what and so I stepped on the bird the bird and I freaked out and the bird and I |
2:28.4 | made the same noise that is not somebody that survives a global pandemic |
2:35.1 | all right if you can match the pitch of a pigeon out of fear then no no one is |
2:40.6 | checking for you in the Mad Max movie all right you died in the first five |
2:45.2 | seconds in that montage about what went wrong with the world is you at a bird |
2:49.6 | like like that's how it ends this is insane you know the global pandemic last year |
3:00.6 | was crazy because it was the first thing that ever happened that happened |
3:04.5 | that everybody that's wild that didn't even happen in the world wars and they're |
3:10.2 | named after the world you know there were subcultures like we could just |
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