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This isn't a special. Or a reel. It's just a set from one night at The Laugh Factory. No cuts or anything. It was just fun. I hope you like it. Come see me live on Monday nights at the Sunset blvd club. Mike Binder and Friends. This weeks show is a winner. Standup World is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Thanks...

Matt’s a New York comedy beast. He’s sharp, dark, and funny. He’s on the podcast talking about BOLO his awesome special on You Tube, that’s something truly worth checking out. It’s Matt at his best: raw, real, and ripping into life’s absurdities with a signature edge the New York Times called “button-pushing” and “funny.” His style’s a mix of cerebral gut-punches and pitch-black humor. We’re divin...

Hey if you like well written jokes with a dark edge, you’ll love Adrienne Iapalucci. She’s pretty great. One of my current favorites. The gloves are always off. She’s not afraid to joke about any subject. So much fun to watch her work. Her new Netflix special was directed by Louis C.K. who is as good as directing these things as anyone else I’ve ever seen. This one’s shot at The Comedy Cellar in N...

R.I.P. to ED BLUESTONE. Long time stand up comedy fans will know Ed from his droll humor on the Tonight Show in the Carson days, and his National Lampoon writing. (‘BUY THIS MAGAZINE OR WE’ll KILL THIS DOG.) Ed sadly passed away last week. This weeks podcast is a way to say goodbye to an old friend. Please enjoy it, and reach out to your friends and loved ones. Time goes by in a jump cut. Love you...

Okay, I've screwed up a few times but this was a big one. This is a masterclass in what not to do in the making of a podcast episode. This one was unusable. The sound was awful. I wanted to blame Kailey the producer but it was truly my fault. I was bummed too because I've wanted to have Greg on for a long time, and his new special, YOU KNOW ME, shot at the Comedy Mothership, was pretty damn amazin...

Josh Wolf has an incredibly fun and entertaining new special up on YOUTUBE called FOUR STORIES that is truly worth checking out. It's a lot of laughs and a great look into an interesting as hell stand up artist. FOUR STORIES. It speaks for itself. But these are four good ones. Also check out the conversation on it and a lot of other things on this weeks episode of the podcast. It's number 79 and h...

A back to basics episode. Just Kailey and I talking about four incredible stand up specials. Ellen Degeneres new one, Adam Sandler’s ‘Love You’, and two of my all time best from a couple years back that I never stop talking about ‘Rothaniel’ Jerrod Carmichael, and one of my all time favorite hours ever, Greg Warren’s ‘The Salesman’. Watch or listen to the episode about these specials, about what g...

Brittany Schmitt is funny as hell. She’s a lot of fun. Check out this episode. We talked right before she went off for a camping trip with her father up in Canada to one of my favorite places in the world. Algonquin Park. Her new special ‘Horny’ is funny, real, and raw. It gets pretty dark. She goes into her mother’s suicide at the back end of the special and is pretty open while still being damn...

Brittany Schmitt is funny as hell. She’s a lot of fun. Check out this episode. We talked right before she went off for a camping trip with her father up in Canada to one of my favorite places in the world. Algonquin Park. Her new special ‘Horny’ is funny, real, and raw. It gets pretty dark. She goes into her mother’s suicide at the back end of the special and is pretty open while still being damn...

Dave Landau, is the best, check him out this week on the podcast, right here on Standupworld Substack. Also see him on his show, Normal World, and on tour. That’s it! Thanks. Also, if you’re L.A. this Monday night. An amazing show at the Laugh Factory!!! 8P.M. Some really great guests. Monday August 19th! Erica Rhodes. Dane Cook. Adam Hunter. Griffin James. Dave Murphy. Dwight Pryde and Sammy Weis...

Dave Landau, is the best, check him out this week on the podcast, right here on Standupworld Substack. Also see him on his show, Normal World, and on tour. That’s it! Thanks. Also, if you’re L.A. Next Monday night. An amazing show at the Laugh Factory!!! 8P.M. Some really great guests. Monday August 19th! Erica Rhodes. Dane Cook. Adam Hunter. Griffin James. Dave Murphy. Dwight Pryde and Sammy Weis...

Francisco Ramos is a smart, funny, comedian. Granted he’s not that smart, he made the decision to come on my podcast, but other than that he’s made some pretty good career choices. He’s got a fun style, he’s loose and authentic and there really isn’t anyone working quite like him. It was a good time having him on the pod, he seems to me like he’s at a place that even though he needs a break of som...

Francisco Ramos is a smart, funny, comedian. Granted he’s not that smart, he made the decision to come on my podcast, but other than that he’s made some pretty good career choices. He’s got a fun style, he’s loose and authentic and there really isn’t anyone working quite like him. It was a good time having him on the pod, he seems to me like he’s at a place that even though he needs a break of som...

RAANAN HERSHBERG Raanan Hershberg, pound for pound, is truly one of my favorite comedians right now. (No, that’s not a fat joke, I live in a glass house, I don’t throw stones.) The reason I think he’s so great is because he has a solid ten bits, or more, I wish I had written. To me that’s the real test if you really love a comic. Do you wish you could do a lot of their act and get away with it? Th...

RAANAN HERSHBERG Raanan Hershberg, pound for pound, is truly one of my favorite comedians right now. (No, that’s not a fat joke, I live in a glass house, I don’t throw stones.) The reason I think he’s so great is because he has a solid ten bits, or more, I wish I had written. To me that’s the real test if you really love a comic. Do you wish you could do a lot of their act and get away with it? Th...

Robert Klein was not only my biggest childhood inspiration to get into stand up and one of the most brilliant performers I ever saw live, but I’m honored to say over the years he’s become a friend. I was so lucky to work with him on Reign Over Me. Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, myself, and even the late, great Donald Sutherland were all so excited to be on set with him, and even more elated to come to...

Stand-Up Comic and Filmmaker: Sam Rubinoff Is the guest on Standupworld this week. I’m really excited about it too. In a colosseum sized field of play for the world of stand up to exist today, Sam has a unique spot on the pitch. He’s carved a rare niche for himself by blending sharp wit with poignant storytelling. His short films, frequently featuring some of today’s most in-demand stand-ups, have...

Stand-Up Comic and Filmmaker: Sam Rubinoff Is the guest on Standupworld this week. I’m really excited about it too. In a colosseum sized field of play for the world of stand up to exist today, Sam has a unique spot on the pitch. He’s carved a rare niche for himself by blending sharp wit with poignant storytelling. His short films, frequently featuring some of today’s most in-demand stand-ups, have...

‘WE THINK IT’S FUNNY’ is a fantastic podcast that’s doing really well hosted by my buddy Mark Schiff, and his pal Danny Lobell. It’s shot and recorded in a bus, built and put together by Lobell who was one of the first comics into podcasting. The ‘bus’ has a set-up with a great vibe to it. It feels comfortable as can be in there, and the two of them are damn funny to be around. The comics have bee...

Marlon Wayans is on a heater. No doubt about it. He’s been going non-stop since he was fifteen doing background stuff on In Living Color as the baby boy in what was to become the Jackson 5 of Comedy, the most brilliant funny family since the Marx bros. He later busted out with his childhood bunk mate, brother Shawn, creating hit sitcoms and movies pretty much one after another for a good twenty fi...

There’s very few people in Stand up that are this talented and at the same time universally liked and even loved by everyone in the business. Dan Soder is that guy. Not sure what it is, but you can’t help but love him, off stage and on. Check out this talk with him, and enjoy this new special, which is more of an EP kind of album of his last year or so on the road, but it’s really, really, funny....

Dave Attell is ‘The Great One.’ in stand up. A veteran who has just kept getting better and better. His new special on Netflix is nothing short of a masterpiece. Seriously, everyone that has seen it is loving it and talking about it in glowing terms the way they were last talking about Sticks and Stones or Live in Austin. It is so fast and liquid and just flat out funny. Check it out on Netflix. (...

Dave Attell is ‘The Great One.’ in stand up. A veteran who has just kept getting better and better. His new special on Netflix is nothing short of a masterpiece. Seriously, everyone that has seen it is loving it and talking about it in glowing terms the way they were last talking about Sticks and Stones or Live in Austin. It is so fast and liquid and just flat out funny. Check it out on Netflix. (...

Fahim Anwar is a stand up beast. A modern comedy warrior. Unafraid to try almost anything, in love with the craft, a joker, a writer, a filmmaker, and a character actor. He is having, and is going to have a big career. Just another Jewish comic making it big. Oh, wait. He’s not Jewish. Everything else I’m right about. He’s pretty great. We talk about his new special, ‘House Money’, his last specia...