Music Is Funny

Growing up on show tunes, playing in a band in college, how the Seinfeld TV show in high school inspired a career in stand up, doing comedy at a college gig for nobody, getting discovered by a commercial agent at a gig in LA, why commercial auditions are brutal, touring with Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy, why band names are dumb, and oh so much more! Check out the hilarious Nick Hoff. •Ni...

Growing up in Brooklyn, hearing Streisand and classical music in the household, discovering the Beatles, The Who, and Hendrix, finding self-worth in comedy, doing open mics at 19, doing Last Comic Standing, moving to LA and landing movie roles, hanging out with Will Farrell, Vince Vaughn, and Luke Wilson, meeting the Monty Python crew, why Bob Dylan is a troll, and oh so much more! Probably the ha...

Growing up in a trailer park in Alabama, watching CMT and BET as a kid, moving to Charleston SC and taking an improv class on a whim, moving to Nashville, booking yourself on club tours, doing the Grand Ole Opry, opening for country Superstars, the value of bad gigs, why quitting drinking led to better comedy, and oh so much more! Today we’re having a good time with Dusty Slay. •Dusty Slay• https:...

Growing up in the world of Barbershop Quartets, discovering Thriller, trying to write songs as a young man, trying standup for the first time a month after 911, moving to NYC and working at a comedy club, the importance of not being an asshole as a young comedian, watching famous musicians attempt comedy, getting a gig as a producer at Sirius/XM, why you always check right and oh so much more! Che...

How does one go from growing up in New Hampshire, to becoming a policeman in rural Maine at age 19, to going to comedy open mics in Boston, to graduating to big clubs in NYC, to moving to LA and having not one but two major TV development deals, to doing major late night TV spots and having comedy specials on major networks, to losing it all in the 2006 stock market crash, to moving back to New Ha...

Growing up in Brazil, moving to Charlottesville Virginia at age 12, seeing Aerosmith in middle school, writing a musical, the difficulty in promoting yourself, moving to LA to pursue TV hosting, working at National Lampoon, working at the Comedy Store, touring with Bobby Lee, Kevin Nealon, and Bill Burr, the difference in doing comedy in Brazil vs the US, hosting The Soup, Hotties, and oh so much...

Growing up on church music, drumming in the high school band, getting a job in advertising and hating it, writing a book before the age of 30, how his grandma inspired him to try standup, going from the first open mic to opening for George Strait in 3 years, why some people thought he was doing a “character”, going viral on Facebook Live during the pandemic, self-funding his own comedy special, al...

Growing up on the Monkees, Dave Clark Five, and the Beatles, why Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias are stone cold players, being in a rap group and getting kicked out, touring and singing with Dane Cook, being inspired by George Carlin, writing jokes as a kid, starting a late night talk show in college, why where your from is irrelevant, and oh so much more! And maybe the hardest we have laughed ye...

Why the F word should be normalized, how the world is run by Sorcerers, why words are power, why LA crowds and comedians don’t do anything provocative, how we are manipulated by scarcity, buying drugs from a stripper and getting arrested, growing up on Motown, seeing ghosts in the comedy store, how Rolling Stone magazine is no longer counter-culture and oh so much more! Today we go deep with the a...

Seeing Neil Diamond, the Commodores, and Kenny Rogers as a child, sharing the stage with and kissing Diana Ross as a 7 year old, seeing Gallagher live, hitting the road as a young comic, opening for Rodney Carrington, the magic of crowd work, getting thrown off of Ron White’s bus and oh so much more! Check out our hilarious chat with Marc Ryan. •Marc Ryan• http://www. MarcRyan.com/ Facebook: http:...

Growing up on one 8-track of Willie Nelson, moving to Atlanta with no plan and working in a comedy club, hitting the road doing comedy and living out of a car for years, playing anywhere and everywhere mainly for a place to stay, doing black comedy clubs wearing jeans and cowboy boots, going from living out of a car to private jets while doing the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, touring with Larry the Ca...

Growing up in a deaf family, prank calling Lars Ulrich and Tom Arnold, working on the Howard Stern show, opening for Metallica and Alice In Chains, getting on Sex and the City, doing a Christopher Walken impression in front of Christopher Walken, why Paul Stanley loves his Gene Simmons impression and oh so much more! Check out our wild ride with the hilarious Craig Gass. •Craig Gass• Facebook: htt...

Sharing an apartment with a ghost, seeing the Rocky Horror Picture Show as a kid, waitressing at the Comedy Store, getting respect from Paul Mooney, touring with Andrew Dice Clay, raising your “comedy baby”, how comedy gets recycled over the years, impersonating Cher and oh so much more! Check out our conversation with the hilarious Christy Miller. •Christy Miller• Facebook: https://www.facebook.c...

How does one go from a tiny town in Wyoming, to running up and down the Las Vegas strip with $100,000 in cash, placing semi-legal bets for professional gamblers under his own name, to making $1000’s of dollars a day, eating and drinking for free in casinos, to having $80,000 dollars of his bosses money stolen by his dad, to having his identity stolen by the same dad, to attempting to murder his da...

Today Raelyn and JB sit down for some quick and shameless self-promotion for the new, possibly less than legal, Raelyn Nelson Band video and single, "FREE". Please check it out wherever you stream music, and watch the video on YouTube before it is (possibly) taken down. Enjoy your groceries! •Raelyn Nelson Band• “Free” video: https://youtu.be/JYoHeWFyr5s “Free” audio: https://open.spotify.com/albu...

Listening to Run DMC and Ice T with his mom, playing in a hardcore band, making a Hip Hop record, doing comedy at a bar during halftime of Monday Night Football, discovering George Carlin, moving to NYC and hanging with Big Jay, Bill Burr, Dave Chapelle, Patrice O’Neil, the demise of the Opie and Anthony show, how the concept of “context” is being lost, making a short film with Bill Burr and Rober...

Growing up on Kiss, Disco, and Van Halen, playing in a high school band in Boston, working for one of the top radio stations in the country, working the door on a barge that doubled as a comedy club, watching Dane Cook, Bill Burr, and Patrice O’Neil as young comedians, producing comedy shows, forming a comedy band and oh so much more! Here’s our chat with the hilarious Gary Marino. •Gary Marino• h...

Growing up on Crowded House, Squeeze, and Missing Persons, joining the Kiss Army, life on the Sunset Strip as a teenager, discovering “Hair Metal”, renting standup comedy tapes from Blockbuster, how a near death experience with a roommate who thought he was Jesus led to doing standup comedy, writing songs for Wayne Brady, getting grief from Howard Stern and oh so much more! Check out our chat with...

Working security for The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, Wu Tang, and Billy Graham, getting his veterinary license on Keith Richards advice, starring in an Animal Planet series with 200 million viewers, opening for Joan Rivers, Betty White, George Lopez, and others, surviving a stalker's attempt to murder him with a sword and coffin and oh so much more! Check out our wild conversation with Dr. Kevi...

Growing up with Elvis, OJ Simpson, Sly Stallone, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as neighbors, roaming the Sunset Strip in the late 80’s, following Dave Chappelle at the Comedy Store, the origins of Roast Battle, bombing at a Democratic fundraiser, opening for Motorhead, being friends with Andrew Dice Clay, tripping on Jolt Cola and oh so much more! Check out our conversation with the incomparable Earl Sk...

Growing up with MTV, discovering Hip Hop, interning at the Howard Stern show, gang bangs at the Comedy Store, wrecking Paulie Shore’s car, enduring nut shots from Ari Shaffir, drinking with Bert Kreischer, wrestling with stepdads, and oh so much more! Check out our hilarious chat with the amazing Jeff Danis. Also, check out Raelyn on the Danish and O’Neil podcast here: https://youtu.be/jlbdESWmams...

How does one go from being raised by a single mother in the Ministry, to deciding to be a stand up comic, booking his own comedy show with his own money in a local gymnasium to get his start, becoming a viral video sensation, doing the red carpet at the CMA’s, and turning all off that into a successful stand up career? That and oh so much more in our conversation with the hilarious Josh Pray! •Jos...

Learning ventriloquism as a child, singing in a touring country/rock band, working churches, schools and state fairs, getting on America’s Got Talent, doing one of the most successful Vegas residencies of all time, being crowned “one of the two most talented people in the world” by Simon Cowell, amassing a small fortune in puppets and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the amazing Terry Fato...

Growing up with a famous radio personality, listening to Big Band music as a kid, playing in a junior high Rock band, getting shut down at the high school talent show, starting comedy in Boston, the Boston to NYC comedy “pipeline”, being a regular on VH-1, getting attacked onstage, hanging with the Tough Crowd crew and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the incomparable Greg Fitzsimmons. •Gr...

Growing up in New York, moving to Greece and joining an opera conservatory as a 14 year old, hanging out at rock venues as a kid, joining an improv group in NYC, running a theater company, getting mentored by Joe Franklin, how the comedy scene has changed over the years and oh so much more! Check out our chat with the uber talented Anna Manis. •Anna Manis• https://www.annamanis.com Instagram: @the...