The Comic's Comic Presents Last Things First

Doug Stanhope 23.06.2016 28:45 ↓

Welcome to our 100 th episode together of The Comic's Comic Presents Last Things First. This isn't like the other episodes, and not just because it's our 100 th episode – I mean, is any sit-down with Doug Stanhope normal, exactly? Even though Stanhope and I haven't sat down together in more than five years, he called me out the second he saw me across the room at the end of his own podcast at the...

Gary Gulman 20.06.2016 51:28 ↓

Gary Gulman is the tallest funniest Jew I know, and I've known him personally since 2004, when he competed on seasons two and three of NBC's Last Comic Standing. Gulman went to Boston College on a football scholarship but found his end zone in stand-up comedy a few months after graduation. He has recorded three comedy albums and three hour-specials for TV consumption – his latest, the brilliant "I...

Big Jay Oakerson 16.06.2016 1:05:55 ↓

Jay Oakerson's first TV credit was on BET. Big Jay started stand-up comedy in all-black rooms in Philadelphia, and now he's playing to everyone while often relying on his sharp wit to riff with the crowds in the moment. He hosts an all-crowd-work series "Big Jay Oakerson's What's Your F@#king Deal," on the NBC digital comedy platform SeeSo, and his previous credits include multiple stories on Come...

Greg Giraldo biographer Matt Balaker 13.06.2016 42:31 ↓

Matt Balaker is writing a book about Greg Giraldo; scratch that, he's writing THE book on Greg Giraldo, as there hasn't been a proper biography about the outrageously witty stand-up comedian since he died in 2010 at the age of only 44. Balaker, a comedian himself, has interviewed more than 25 people close to Giraldo – from his former managers, friends, comedians, and his widowed ex-wife – and succ...

Kevin Bartini 09.06.2016 57:01 ↓

Kevin Bartini is a stand-up comedian and writer who audiences see first when they attend tapings of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central. Bartini also has warmed up TV audiences for The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and sometimes now The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He also hosts The Movie Preview Review podcast (part of the ShowBriz Studios network), and spearheaded the year...

Dick Gregory 06.06.2016 1:12:15 ↓

At 83, Dick Gregory remains an active comedy legend, logging more than 200 stand-up gigs a year. Gregory  changed the game in 1961 when he performed at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club in Chicago, and the notoriety of becoming the first black comedian to play to white crowds led him soon thereafter to become the first black performer to sit on the couch with Jack Paar when he was host of The Tonight Sho...