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Hannah Berner: Gossiping with Nikki Glaser, working with Amy Poehler, and Giggly Squad

June 04, 2026 / 01:06:03

This episode features comedian Hannah Burner discussing her podcast "Giggly Squad," her upcoming Hulu special, and her experiences in stand-up comedy. Topics include the challenges of touring, the dynamics of comedy, and the differences between performing for live audiences and reality TV.

Hannah shares her journey from reality TV to stand-up comedy, emphasizing the importance of stage time and crowd work. She talks about the pressures female comedians face regarding appearance and how it differs from their male counterparts. The conversation also touches on the camaraderie among comedians and the unique challenges of touring.

David Spade and Dana Carvey, the hosts, engage with Hannah about her experiences, including the pressures of performing live and the creative process behind her comedy. They discuss the significance of being authentic on stage and how personal experiences shape comedic material.

The episode highlights the fun and chaotic nature of comedy, with plenty of laughter and banter among the hosts and guest. Hannah's insights into the comedy industry and her personal anecdotes provide a relatable and entertaining perspective.

Listeners can expect a mix of humor and candid discussions about the realities of being a comedian, making this episode a must-listen for fans of stand-up and comedy podcasts.

TLDR

Hannah Burner discusses her comedy journey, podcast, and Hulu special, highlighting the challenges of touring and the dynamics of female comedians.

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I wanted to do Giggly Squad when my movie came out. And she goes, we don't have guests. And literally one second
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later, Kate Hudson goes, I can't wait to be on your show tonight. And I go like
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this. >> Busted. >> Do you want to think about your answers quickly for a second? I'll step away.
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>> You know, I'll ask you again. >> That was horrible timing. That was bad
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timing. >> I know. I saw Paige be like a >> young guys. Yeah, young guys. So you
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just suddenly have to be like and they'll be like I'm so sorry. I'm so
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sorry. We're older guys. >> That's not s idiots. Yeah. >> Also young guys, you give them a little
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kiss, they're like all happy again. Older guys, they've seen too much already. They're like, "Don't get your
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tits out of my face. I've seen too much." >> Get your tits out of my face.
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>> I love these guys that just dress like school shooters. Get on stage. I mean, Shane, love of my life, did MSG
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with like his hair was just straight up like he just woke up from a nap. >> And that's a full arena. Like they can
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see the under. And it was adorable. Yeah. >> Dana, we got Hannah Burner who is a
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podcaster >> comedian. >> Yeah. The Giggly Squad. >> Giggly Squad is a big podcast. Uh she
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all with Paige Dorbo. She also has >> she's a standup. I see her out there out
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and about. I've seen her here and there. >> Very funny. It was time to have her on.
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She's got a, you know, special coming out >> and we talk about that, of course.
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>> We talk about her podcast, >> going on the road to their podcast. Um,
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>> and everything in between. We do crack up a lot. When you have comics on, we
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all wind up laughing a lot, which is great. >> Yeah, we just bounce bounce around, go
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where we go. She's really funny and fun to have. It's great. >> Now, here she is. Hannah Burner
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>> is that she's here. Wait a minute. Oh, I don't have the right glasses. Wait a
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minute. There she is. Oh my god. >> Decided to roll in. >> Why are you guys late?
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>> Thank you. >> Why are you 500 years late? >> Don't be mad at my research. Don't be
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mad that we care. >> You guys are so cute. >> I saw you and pay your your thing and
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then it was on the paper on the table. Nothing. Not one piece of paper. >> What are you talking about?
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>> Podcast. >> Your podcast. >> I don't know. >> The Giggle Squad.
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>> You guys, I like your white background. I like it's kind of cool. >> Cobra. You better put your earphones in.
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We're halfway done. >> Oh Jesus. >> Get him. >> What? >> Well, there there's a clip,
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>> dude. I >> Darn headphones. Okay, we'll take a break. I will put perfectly good headphones
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into my pocket, Dana, and I pull them out. They're like that. It takes 35 minutes.
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>> Oh, I have a drawer with that doing like this. Like the game operation. I go,
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"What is happening? >> It's some kind of gremlins go in there and [ __ ] with you." And then you go
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>> tied in with their [ __ ] >> How is that even possible? >> Professional knot person couldn't do a
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knot this >> Oh my god. >> That's my point. David Blaine. It's
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called Poltergeist. It's called things that we can't explain. You couldn't tie
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those if you gave it to props. >> Okay, this is what I'm gonna do. >> Oh my god.
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>> Oh, you're doing a single. That's sexy. >> You're gonna Can you get the other one
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up there? >> Try to lift it. Is the other side too tied up? Frick. >> How is he even Don't hurt yourself.
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Don't hurt yourself. >> I I'm like a DJ. I do one ear just in case something else happens in the room.
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>> I do that sometimes, too. If you're doing a funny voice, you go like that so
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you can hear it in the room. Yeah. >> You you the voice won't hit unless you
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have the outer room energy. >> I gotcha. Is that a real plant or a fake plant? What do you think?
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>> Fake. >> Yeah. Yes. Is that a real Superman or a dog? Fake. >> Wait, this is like is it cake but with
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Dana? >> It's is spade cake. comes and goes, >> "Is this water or an illusion?"
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>> Well, that's kind of cool looking. >> And you know, the good thing is you're
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promoting your special on Hulu, but this counts as like nothing because it's just
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a screw off. >> You know what I mean? >> This is my most exciting thing I got. I
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was like, >> "Yeah, >> I'm so honored to be here. This is awesome. I mean, I have nothing to talk
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about, but >> No, that's none of my business. >> Whoops. Oh, that's actually a title.
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>> Oopsie. >> How long? Oopsie. My mistake. Sorry. Tried to trend with that one. What were
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your alts? What were your alts? I think it's a great title, but what were your
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alts? >> Do you guys when you do a special of some kind, do you do title first or
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last? I think about it the whole time and it's toward the end probably unless I have a
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theme, but I never have a a whole running theme. >> I've done three. I had one good one and
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the other two were bad. >> Some comics are so good at like the coolest freaking name and then some
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people are like cheeseburger. >> Yeah. >> But um >> dandelion >> I think did I honestly kind of panicked.
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Oh my my first special which was we ride at dawn. I like that one. >> Thank you. At the very end,
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>> I had I had no title and I had a a joke about guns, about how women are the only
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people that legally should be able to have guns because of the statistics. It's just data and science, women in
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STEM. And I just added we ride at dawn in the middle of that joke to make it make sense. So that's just a little
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behind the >> No, that's kind of good because sometimes little ad lives. I thought of
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one line in one of my jokes this weekend and I was like, "Oh, I gotta remember
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that." And in the middle of my act, I remembered it for about five minutes,
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but I'm still doing my act. And then at the end, I go, "No idea." But I figured
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out later. But you know what I mean? Like if you think of something you're throwing out there, these comics that
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don't record and they just keep doing sets, I go, "What is the point? You don't remember
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what you said." >> I have a terrible memory. Like, you know, some of these comics are geniuses.
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Like, it's You know me. You know us. >> Yeah, I can tell. I can just tell.
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>> So, you record every set. >> Oh, but I don't record. >> Oh, well,
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>> I do. I do record, but you know what it is? >> Hard to listen back, right?
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>> I think I just Yeah, I think I just I plan on just doing the set so much that
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I say it's like a story. When you tell a funny story at a dinner table and you
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say something that works, you're going to say it at the next dinner table cuz
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like that's the spot you like. But forgetting um a tag that you came up with, which is always the best ones.
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>> Um is true. I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. >> It's uh torture
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>> while you're shooting the special. Did you have regrets? >> You got one while you shot, which is
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rare. >> Oh, you mean like some of the crowd work and stuff? >> Well, you said rewrite it at Dawn and
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that was not a regular line. Hold that. Yeah. >> Well, it added kind of perfectly. And
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doesn't the audience love when they're watching a special and you finally say
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the title and just makes them feel all warm and >> happy? Well, can I just say from someone
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who loves movies, We Ride at Dawn just makes me happy. I think it's cool. We
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Ride at Dawn says so much. We Ride at Dawn. What the It's the most bad. It's
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badass. I wanted to like get people to feel something which you know >> that's that's what we do as artists
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>> and also we ride a dawn. I don't even know what that means like when is dawn
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when is dawn >> which just means it's a posi or a group of men in the 1880s going we ride a dawn
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mean we're going to go >> see light we go kill everyone >> as >> that is it I think
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>> do you guys wake up earlier now in your um more experienced ages? Oh, I'm up at
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6 every day. I'm Yeah, I have farmers hours. I live on a farm and I get up at
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6 every day to feed the pigs and the cows and the horses. >> No, we just have horses.
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>> What time do you put yourself down at night? >> Who puts you to bed?
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>> That's a good title for a special. What time? >> What time do you put yourself down at
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night? >> It sounds like a dog that's not doing too well. We put him down. No, I uh I
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meander, you know, I kind of 10 10:30. >> Sometimes if I'm really exhausted, I
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like to sleep nine hours if I could get it. That's like a real like reset sleeping. Are you like a 3, five an hour
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person? >> Oh, no. I love sleep. I'm I don't think I would have made it as a comedian if I
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didn't wasn't good at sleeping on planes, sleeping on couches. I can't
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sleep I sleep anywhere. Sleep on the subway. I take my bootleg propal at night and just take a little
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>> and then um the Michael Jackson juice >> is that a peptide. What is a
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>> propall is a new >> they do when they're giving you a surgery they put you under. Yeah.
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>> For a colonoscopy. But Michael Jackson had that at home. And I'm like I didn't
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know you could have it at home. He's like well you can't. And he has a doctor
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do it. And then the doctor like took a phone call and came back. Michael's like, he's like, "Hey guy, it's great
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we're talking about this right now. I really love it with Michael. The movies
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going to a billion." >> Yeah. >> So, whatever. >> There's a documentary coming out anyway.
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Yes, David. >> Oh. Oh, I see. >> This one's for Hannah. Um Hannah.
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>> Yeah. Usually I get a question too, but she's Go ahead. I have a question.
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>> I have a million questions. told Dana, "I saw you at the Netflix uh [ __ ] show
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brunch, which was pretty fun." >> Um, even though the brunch, I think
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lovely Ted Sanders and his wife uh Nicole had a great brunch. I didn't know pizza was the number one thing for
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brunch. But anyway, um >> he has notes. >> We served a lot of people. But I said to
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uh Hannah, >> one of my hard-hitting questions because you see everybody there.
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>> You get up in people's faces a little. >> Yeah. And I said, "Hannah,
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>> I wanted to do Giggly Squad when my movie came out." And she goes, "We don't
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have guests." And literally one second later, Kate Hudson goes, "I can't wait
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to be on your show tonight." And I go like this, >> "Busted. Do you want to think about your
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answers quickly for a second? I'll step away." >> You know, I'll ask you again.
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>> That was horrible timing. That was bad timing. >> I know. I saw Paige be like,
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"That's Heather." Heather's laughing. >> One of our producers
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>> obsessed with Heather. Obsessed with her. >> Heather likes your show.
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>> We actually We don't do guests, but Netflix was like, "We'll pay you to talk
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to guests on stage." And I was like, "Is it David Spade?" And they're like,
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"Absolutely." >> I was going to pay. Okay. Um, you know, we're going to break into guests. It's
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just, you know, you you guys know guests are the worst. >> It's a hassle. Well, how many episodes
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have you done? Giggly, >> we've been doing it since 2020. Like we're
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>> so like 380. >> Kill that thing. >> We just went to two episodes a week. I I
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love interviews though. Like I love interviewing people. I would >> dissect David Spade
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>> for sure. >> I would make him question. >> You would deconstruct
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him and then reassemble him in 45 minutes. I I get you'd have that. Yeah, >> I would love to. Um so
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>> well, if our guest could be like you, it'd be easy, >> right?
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>> Oh, stop. also >> because you're laughing and you do a podcast. It's not like
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>> Yeah. You know what's up. >> Yeah. I just Podcasting is so so fun.
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And you I do get a lot of material from podcasting with my best friend. You guys
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know you start riffing, next thing you know. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> So, it's kind of like crowd work for me.
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>> It doesquefy. It keeps your brain like that. So, two a week is >> harder than twice as hard.
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>> Wow. >> But you know what? I felt like we were holding back with one episode cuz but
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Paige and I, we can't speak that much during the week cuz then we burn material,
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>> right? You can though. I watched one of them. Yeah, >> there's no
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>> women do being. >> Yeah. I mean, two times a week for an hour each, that's not too much for you
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guys. >> No, not at all. And then we'll have some notes, but sometimes we don't even hit
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the note. like we'll just start rambling and cuz we're so different, we'll always
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argue. So, bring any topic up and we'll have disagree. >> No, there was a good vibe when I saw it.
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You were doing some hard-hitting subjects like high heels. >> Actually, I saw um
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>> we did a whole episode on chess.com. >> On what? Chess. >> Chest.
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>> Chess.com. Are you familiar with Magnus Carlson? It's um >> Oh, they got it.
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>> Oh, chess. Yeah, I thought you said chess. I feel like male comedians would
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love the chess drama cuz it's like lonely men who are like >> I'd like to talk to that guy. That guy's
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a genius. >> Very smart. >> Grandmaster >> battling down demons. He's a
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grandmaster. He accuses this young guy of cheating and no one knows how he cheated and they think it's cuz he got
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>> he put taps in his pants or something. Dude, these [ __ ] guys that are
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grandmas get smoked by a kid. It's the best thing in the world. They like slammed the table,
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>> but they thought he had a rook. >> They thought he had anal beads in his
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butt and they were doing Morse code to tell him. And I said, "That's genius."
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At that point, let him win. >> That's crazy. I've never heard of anything like that. It's ridiculous.
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Hang on. I got something coming through. >> No, no, I've just never heard anything
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like that. It's crazy. >> He's like, "Do it again. I didn't feel
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that way." >> I'm not cheating, you stupid idiot. Put it on high.
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>> Have you ever had sex with a chess grandmaster? I mean, you don't have to
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answer that. It's probably >> to have it. No, I've I've never met a ch
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I I really My husband's the first smart guy I ever met. >> How did you know he was smart when you
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meet him? When did What was the five or >> Well, I cuz I was a former athlete. I
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dealt with >> tennis nationally ranked audience. >> Thank you. So, I've I I dated I've dated
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some like CTE men, but large, strong, sturdy. >> Um, >> interesting.
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>> And that'll you could last a year easy in one of those relationship.
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>> Go on that for a while. Sure. >> You could ride that wave. Um, >> well, you're the smart one and you're
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kind of running the show. >> Well, yeah. You're like I'm just I'm
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silly and like goofy, but I don't I'm not a caretaker type. So when it came to
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like if they hurt their knee or like they lost a game, I was like, "You should call your mom." Like I don't
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>> the game, right? >> Oh god. When they lost a game, it's like >> what about when they retire and now
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you're full and he's like, "Let's start a Tik Tok." And you're like, "O
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>> yeah." And then he like can't play with his own kids because his knees been
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redone eight times. >> Yeah. >> Tik Tok. >> Tennis is really that brutal, I guess.
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Yeah. At a high level. >> Yeah. That got dark. So, what are you more turned on? A guy with a wall, a big
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wallet. >> You don't need money. Uh, intelligence or sense of humor? What do you put?
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>> It's crazy. >> Or they overlap. >> I haven't dated since like being a
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comedian. >> Like, I've never been single on the comedian circle. Probably a blessing.
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>> So, I've never been, you know, out at the clubs, you know, getting DMs from
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men. I didn't have a guy in different area codes. Like I was just working on
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my on my art. >> How's that margarita? By the way, >> this is a ice coffee that kind of
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melted. >> I honor that, man. >> No, I want to ask you also about the
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goddamn brunch. We have to make more fun of it. >> I know. No, we will. But Dez Dez is
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older. is older and he's traveled so like he knows about the 80s and I could ask him
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a lot of different questions about he watch he reads stuff about the news so like I don't have to he's like I'm like
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what happened >> in the what's going on overseas and he'll give me like
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>> yeah and he he's made a lot of m his own life mistakes so that he's learned from
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that he can bring to me so that's value I think that's when you're like I I'll
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keep this person around longer cuz they know things I don't know. And I think
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that's been helpful. >> Us old people are handy. >> Interesting. Have you ever called him
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daddy? Just casually. >> I joked that he's zaddy with a Z, which is >> okay. Cuz it's that combo.
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>> Cuz Zatty means like daddy but like sexy, right? >> Sexy. David's like, "Yeah, yeah." Yeah.
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>> No, I think I've heard that terminology. >> That was a little like two years ago. He
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It was Zaddy. >> I just heard it. >> But I argue for all the girls, I want
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them to date older guys. That's why you guys brought me on to talk about this.
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>> That like David was telling me exactly what to say. He was like, "Say that
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older men are great to >> be in your life." But um >> they the hard thing is you guys are
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smart. So sometimes he wins arguments. >> Oh. which I thought was illegal after a
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marriage >> over a professional worldclass standup comedian. He can tennis player.
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>> Well, this is the problem. >> That's pretty smart. >> He's also a stand-up comedian.
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>> Holy [ __ ] >> So, that's where that's where I didn't
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think about it. He's >> Yeah. >> And he's pre-trained. Like, he's seen a
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lot of different angles these other women have done to him. So, I'll do something and he's he knows
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terminologies. >> Oh, I know that old chest. >> I start crying. He's like, "Stop with
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the fake tears." And I'm like, "This guy's good. This guy's good.
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>> He knows you better than you know yourself." Easily tricked young guys.
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>> Young guys. Yeah. Young guys, you just suddenly have to be like and they'll be
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like, "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry." Where >> that's not idiots. Yeah.
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>> Also, young guys, you give them a little kiss, they're like all happy again.
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Older guys, they've seen too much already. They're like, "Don't get your
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tits out of my face. I've seen too much. >> Get your tits out of my face. This isn't
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over." >> Yeah. >> So, there's pros and cons of a smart man.
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>> Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. I like everything I'm hearing. >> But yeah, the the brunch was fun.
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>> Was it? >> David, do you do you get sick? Do you get sick of seeing all your comedy
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friends in one place ever? Purge is a joyful for you running. >> No, I think for you it might be more fun
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because you guys were outliers because you're not there all the time. >> Yeah.
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>> But you were doing a Netflix thing because the funny thing was >> you're with all your comedy friends. I
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get on that little stand to take that picture and I'm next to my two favorite
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comedians, the cast of The Hunting Wives. I'm like, well, >> the Hunting Wives? No, I was I actually
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liked those girls. They were very sweet, you know. And listen, if you're getting
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invited and you're on Netflix, I it's not my party. They're just putting a
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conglomeration of people and everyone was It's fun to see everyone in person.
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A little bright for people to see me, but it was fine. >> I'll tell you, dads, especially Dana, is
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impossible to shop for. They always say they don't want anything, but you know,
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that's not true. Mhm. >> But if there's one thing you can get right, it's what's on his plate.
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something funny. So, I figure out >> you were standing around there when >> Kate Hudson was there and
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>> and she goes, "Hey, I want to She goes, "Is that guy on a podcast?" And I go,
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"Yeah." I go, "Shi to him." And she goes, "Okay." So, I go, "Theo, come
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here." He stands there like he's three years old. "Hey, how you doing?" And she
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goes, "Yeah." And he goes, she goes, "You're wearing a long sleeve black
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shirt?" Cuz it was a day and it was a tent. >> It was just tented, but not like with
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doors and everything. It was just like an airy tent like a circus. And then you could walk in and out, you know, breeze
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around. And he goes, "It's really hot outside, but it's nicer under the tent,
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but there's no signs to say that it's nicer under the tent." So he goes, "I was standing there for so
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long, but there's no signs." And she goes, "Oh yeah, well maybe they should
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have some >> because they don't stand in the faking [ __ ] sun." >> Was there a pecking order? My thing
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would be like there'd be like the cool group and then the super cool group. >> It was very high school. Like there's
00:22:16
the super seniors >> that are like saying hi to all the >> Letterman Chappelle and Eddie Murphy.
00:22:24
>> Yeah. >> Was Shane there? Shane was not there. >> Wasn't there. I guess he was prepping.
00:22:31
>> He was touring. I think like he was like >> he was playing North Dakota, you know,
00:22:35
put a stage in the middle of the state. >> The whole the Midwest. He was playing
00:22:41
>> He was playing the greater Midwest. >> The Grand Canyon. Build it.
00:22:46
When we interviewed Shane on this podcast, he was sort of this SNL thing had just happened and
00:22:51
>> oh wow, >> he was like, "Yeah, I'm playing clubs and they're talking about a theater
00:22:56
maybe or so and then like skyrocketing." >> Houston, >> I met Shane back in the day when he was
00:23:03
like opening for people and I was just sitting in a green room with him and he was like, "If I could just get a Comedy
00:23:09
Central scripted show off the ground, that would be my dream." And it was it
00:23:14
was beautiful. It was >> We can make it happen. >> Well, Dave, do you have a Shane story
00:23:18
where he's even before that? >> He was working at AutoZone, right? >> If I could even go to a comedy club, I
00:23:26
would pay so much money. Shane, you're going to be big. >> No. When I met Shane, he already had a
00:23:31
money gun like ASAP Rocky going to No, I I don't see him that much. I do like Shane. I think he's funny. And what
00:23:39
about all the drama with the roast? >> Oh, I know. I didn't I didn't go. I um
00:23:46
>> Did Paige say she went? >> No. Paige wouldn't go anywhere without
00:23:49
me. >> Okay. So, I like that you guys are really friends for the podcast. >> It's not a fake friendship.
00:23:59
>> Yeah. But cuz I heard you guys blabbing about it and it was like >> she said it was too long and I was like
00:24:04
I People don't know when you see a roast normally there's some fat trimmed out
00:24:09
>> so they help you a little bit. They're like get rid of that one. rather but
00:24:14
yeah like when she goes the rock was on forever and he saw it >> I feel he got drunk he was Lucy
00:24:22
>> that's right he gave like a wedding speech >> he did have my favorite one of my
00:24:27
favorite lines when he said >> what did he say >> he said Tony was a sassy bigot
00:24:34
>> a sassy that's >> there was Dana there was some [ __ ] shrapnel flying right and left it
00:24:39
>> crazy >> it was like >> do you think they need to do it live.
00:24:43
Like I feel like people would still watch it two hours condensed protected. >> I think Netflix is on a live kick
00:24:51
because >> the best ratings on network special was all football all these things. So, you
00:24:59
know, 18 out of the top 20 shows in the year of football games and >> Monday Night. So, they go what's live?
00:25:05
What can we make live? Chris Rock do him live. You know, just try things. have the guy climbing the skyscraper live.
00:25:11
There's something about it like we have to watch it now. >> And so the roast is good live. I think
00:25:18
they'll keep it live, but maybe it's better you see all the bumps and bruises
00:25:22
because there's some dead spots. There's some [ __ ] where you're like, "Wait, am I
00:25:26
supposed to walk up now?" And you know, they would take >> It's like a podcast. People are doing
00:25:30
the dishes. Oh, he's on. You know, I mean, it's like a background noise.
00:25:34
>> They just want to hear a little racism in the background, you know. Would you
00:25:38
ever do live standup on Netflix? >> The money's good. >> I'm so scared regular. Rock said it was
00:25:44
so scary and he doesn't get that scared. And >> he's never been scared of anyone.
00:25:49
>> I don't think he would do it again. >> He was scared when he was growing up,
00:25:53
but I think he's cooler now. >> I think he did he did well. He just one
00:25:59
of the things I left to leave before like right when I hit my hot spot, I'm like got to go. Like
00:26:06
>> that's how I am in social situations. That's how I'll be on this podcast. It's
00:26:10
already too long actually. >> Always leave before your peak. Yeah. >> Exactly. Keep wanting more.
00:26:16
>> So, what about Chris? How do you relate to that? This what you just said.
00:26:20
>> Do you think he landed it perfectly? I mean, he threw the mic over his head,
00:26:24
right? >> Yeah. You said he got off. He should have got off sooner. >> Oh, the rock.
00:26:29
>> No, Chris. >> Oh. Oh. Oh, Chris. >> The Rock. >> The Rock. We got we we start over. This
00:26:36
is >> I've got a Rock Hudson junk that I do. I do a Rock Hudson impression
00:26:42
>> and I also could do Rocky. >> No Rocky. >> That's the first time we've gone seven
00:26:47
minutes on a podcast talking about Rock and it was >> the wrong person. >> Not Chris Rock. It was The Rock.
00:26:54
>> And we actually were agreeing for a very long time. >> And well, no, they they matched. They
00:26:58
matched pretty good. >> Oh, you said is Rock scared of anyone? And I was like, Chris Rock. That's what
00:27:04
I I was like, >> well, you were talking about Chris Rock the special and then and then Hannah
00:27:08
brought in Rock. >> Yeah. >> At the at the thing. Yeah. It was It was
00:27:13
a disaster. >> It was a disaster. >> It was a podcasting peak. That was
00:27:20
podcasting. >> We're going to keep this. We're not going to edit. But uh So, would you ever
00:27:26
be roasted if they were going to pay you seven figures? Well, it's fun. Actually,
00:27:31
I um I'm not like a roast comic. Like even when I was coming when I was doing
00:27:37
the clubs all the time, like I judge a roast battle every now and then, but I never
00:27:42
>> did it. I did that one thing for Netflix where I did like roasting the year with
00:27:46
Jeff Ross, which we like it. They gave us like five days to like come up with material and it was it was like very
00:27:53
fun. I don't think I like attention. So, I don't think there's anything
00:28:00
people would say that I would be like, >> you go, >> I can't say no right now because I do
00:28:03
love attention. >> No, but I mean like I was even talking to Chelsea before and she's like,
00:28:08
they're going to call me a [ __ ] And I'm like, a [ __ ] is so like 2000s.
00:28:12
Like, >> yeah. Oh, that's what you guys are talking about. I like that angle. Like
00:28:16
trying to guess what they're going to say. Call me a [ __ ] and I was like, do
00:28:20
better. And then like that she's old and it's like she looks [ __ ] hot though.
00:28:24
>> She did look great. >> She looked great. Um >> I have to say
00:28:28
Yeah, >> go ahead. Well, I'm just curious about you in life. Like I had the need to
00:28:32
please disease for a long time. Then I had five years of therapy. >> Um >> and so how how were you in life? Like
00:28:40
because yeah, >> when you're watching these roast, you see actual hurt. you you see pain, you
00:28:46
know, because because the idea is like, is the is this how the world perceives me?
00:28:51
>> Is this the way they think about me? Not all the time you can see their good
00:28:55
sports. Kevin Hart's got so much muscle memory around this. I think he is literally impenetrable. You'll see is
00:29:01
this the way what's the crulest thing they could say about me? So, >> as a New Yorker, I'm originally from
00:29:09
Brooklyn, New York. Oh, >> our our language is just [ __ ] on each other. Just
00:29:15
>> Yeah. >> Like I get I walk down my my dad it roasts me non-stop and he's my best
00:29:22
friend. >> No, no. I'll put red lipstick on. He's like, "You look like a [ __ ] clown."
00:29:27
And I'm like, "It's so beautiful to be seen by my father." You know?
00:29:31
>> And but that's how we show love. We make fun of each other. So like making fun
00:29:35
like if if if I met David at the brunch and he was like, "Hey, how are you?" I'd
00:29:39
be like, "He [ __ ] hates me." But we're making fun of each other and I'm
00:29:42
like, "Love that guy." So, >> yeah. Right. >> But my um they would make fun of me for
00:29:49
being on reality TV. They'd make fun of me for being a a woman in comedy. They'd
00:29:54
make fun of me for I mean >> that have an older husband. Um like and nothing that I haven't heard. I've I've
00:30:02
survived reality TV internet. Like >> Yeah. I uh >> you've survived those whispers in the
00:30:07
microphone when they go back and look at the tapes and they're like these two
00:30:10
they and you're like >> I've I've done the you go on stage all
00:30:14
the male comics leave cuz the girls on stage like that's the most painful like
00:30:19
but what comedy clothes is that you go on stage >> all like there's like a good show on and
00:30:26
like every comic's on and everyone's hanging by the you know wherever watching and then you go up and
00:30:31
everyone's gone. I'm like what the [ __ ] Where do you go on to do your sets?
00:30:35
Where do you practice? >> So I came up at the stand like I really lived at the stand.
00:30:41
>> Okay. >> During co we were like on the sidewalk. There'd be like a full family children
00:30:47
and I'd be just talking about >> you know my [ __ ] and seeing >> we do.
00:30:56
You know how it is. Um, but just saying crazy [ __ ] and then and you just see like a dog going by just looking at you,
00:31:03
just disappointed in you. >> But I I think like that really got me kept me sane too cuz I had come from
00:31:09
reality TV and I was like, I just want to be myself and be on stage and and off the internet and just like feeling
00:31:17
alive. >> And as a former tennis player, standup was very similar to me than tennis. Like
00:31:23
you're alone out there. You're battling your demons. and I just got obsessed
00:31:28
with it. >> So, how I I was just curious because you're on the reality show and then you
00:31:32
become this. How long did it take you or did you was it were you doing it all along or why did you leave?
00:31:39
>> How did you get really good at this? >> All great questions. So, when I was
00:31:44
>> Thank you, Hannah. >> In 2017, I started working for this like company called Bches where they make
00:31:52
funny memes. So, I was the one writing like funny tweets. I was writing sketches. So, it was like a jokewriting
00:31:58
boot camp, but I never wanted to be a stand-up comedian. I love standup comedy, but I just didn't see that for
00:32:03
me. But, I met a lot of New York standups because I would put them in my like >> Oh,
00:32:09
>> sketches and stuff. And then I started >> Vox Pop >> and my what?
00:32:14
>> What is Vox Pop? >> Oh, that was that was I had a sales job co- calling sales before that.
00:32:22
>> Oh, I'm sorry. Because it says part of betches. It says her vox pop comedy.
00:32:28
>> Oh, I've no sounds like >> interview series. >> There maybe. Who knows? I don't know.
00:32:35
>> I have I have vox pop. >> I I got it treated. >> I have to legally tell you.
00:32:41
>> It's a pill. It's a pill or two. Pill and a half. >> Okay, go ahead. I slowed you down. So,
00:32:44
back to how you became a great >> I'm posting sketches online and whatever
00:32:48
and I never considered standup and then I get asked to do a reality TV show and I'm like [ __ ] it. I'm 26. I'm single. I
00:32:57
didn't think I am a fit for reality TV but whatever. Um, I like attention. Let's let's I wanted to be on camera
00:33:05
which is embarrassing. Would you you know when you admit to yourself you want to be on camera?
00:33:09
>> I think we all are embarrassing but yes. >> Yes. So then I I started podcasting
00:33:16
pretty early. I had my own like mental health comedy pod and I my first live show was at Carolines in New York City
00:33:24
and it was a soldout show cuz I had just started the reality TV show and my friend
00:33:31
>> I had this was really [ __ ] up. I had a I had a bunch of friends in standup who
00:33:35
were like we think you have the chops. You're writing jokes all the time. try
00:33:39
we dare you to try some standup at the top of your show which any standup would say is you shouldn't do
00:33:45
>> but I basically took all my tweets and stuff and I'm like that's a premise
00:33:49
that's a punchline and I I put them in sections and I love writing and >> I thought I was going to bomb. I also
00:33:57
had a lot of anxiety when I was a tennis player with performance like whenever I
00:34:02
could fold or like a cheap beach chair I would. Um, so I was like, "Oh no, I'm
00:34:08
putting myself up again to [ __ ] embarrass myself." But I I swear to God, I got on stage and I felt weirdly calm.
00:34:16
And after the show, everyone was like, the stand up in the beginning was our favorite part. And then I had a bunch of
00:34:23
people standups be like, "If you want to do this the right way, you got to get up
00:34:27
four times a night." And I kind of just put my head down and did that. And I got fired from the
00:34:33
reality TV show. So that was a beautiful coincidence to then be >> who dropped the hammer on you. Did
00:34:39
somebody fire you on there? >> It was it was more like you if you have to get along with the friend group.
00:34:47
>> Oh, you didn't like So you didn't play well with others. >> They were like, "We don't want you here
00:34:53
anymore." And I was like, "Okay, [ __ ] you guys." But the comedians in my life
00:34:58
kept me sane because I would tell them all the crazy stuff that happens on reality TV, like all the editing and the
00:35:03
franken bites and what they're cutting out. >> And my comedy friends thought it was so
00:35:07
funny. So instead of like offing myself cuz I was having a horrible time on reality TV, my stand-up comedy friends
00:35:14
were like, "That's hilarious. Use that on stage." >> Oh. >> And it was kind of like a therapeutic
00:35:21
thing to fall into standup. Well, did Summerhouse That was his call, right? So, you're kind of when you go up
00:35:28
the first time, I just wanted to get the audience kind of know you and also you had a podcast. So, you weren't just a
00:35:35
waitress who went on stage. >> Yeah. >> No, no, no. But I I was at a point
00:35:39
though where at when I ended my reality TV career, it was three years, two amazing, beautiful years. One bad year.
00:35:47
>> When I went on stage, I I felt like people hated me. like I I felt like I
00:35:53
had a a bad scent on me and I feel like as a comedian people have to trust you >> to
00:35:59
>> you have to be likable. Like that's the number one part. So going on stage I had
00:36:05
to overcome like these people think I'm a type of way and I have to show like
00:36:10
I'd rather you just be like oh I don't like Hannah for Hannah then I don't like
00:36:14
her for this scene. That isn't how it actually happened. Oh, also most people
00:36:20
walk up and there's a blank slate. Like you have to win them over one way or the
00:36:24
other. They just see you. There's no preconceived notions. So you're going in
00:36:28
sort of at a deficit like I think they don't like me already. >> Yes. But I also was so fortunate that I
00:36:35
could sell tickets >> enough like I could sell I wasn't selling out clubs but I was selling
00:36:40
enough to go on the road. So, I had someone tell me like, "Look, you'll be
00:36:45
able to sell the tickets the first time, but if it's not good, they're not gonna
00:36:48
come back." >> So, I kind of had this like this is your chance. But, um,
00:36:53
>> I I'm a creative person and I just I was like, "Thank God I'm not doing reality
00:36:58
TV anymore and I want to write my own stuff and be a performer and make people bring people joy, you know?"
00:37:05
So it ended up very pretty quickly like four years, five years into standup was my first Netflix special.
00:37:14
>> God, it's a lot of pressure to go up because a lot of people have to build an
00:37:16
audience and they get to get better while they do it. But you have the crowd there. It's almost like
00:37:22
>> harder to say, why aren't you this good like a professional headline? You're
00:37:26
like, I just started. And and they also have to do lots of time probably. Well, I I say that I had to do an hour very
00:37:35
early. So, even when I said, "Oh, I'm two years into comedy." I'd been doing
00:37:39
an hour the whole time. >> So, while doing sets in between, but um I feel like I had so much stage time.
00:37:47
And when I first started, I actually started with I joke that I had 45 minutes and I got off stage and they're
00:37:52
like, "You did 33 minutes in a Q&A." Like, I was fighting for my life.
00:37:56
>> Yeah, for sure. But then you like get one good story and next thing you know
00:38:00
you're 40. >> And I have a lot of friends who were like I I I'm not ready for an hour. I'm
00:38:06
not ready for an hour. And I kind of just went about it in a my own way. I think if I went the traditional way, I
00:38:14
wouldn't be where I am today because I'd still be like working on my I mean when
00:38:18
I got JFL New Faces, I never had had a type five. I had to reverse engineer what my type five would be because I
00:38:26
started >> with 15 at the clubs. >> Did you reverse engineer hilar >> I love your resume and how you got into
00:38:34
it. I just wondered when in those five years did you have times when you're like um something happened on stage and
00:38:41
it was epiphal like this is my lane or this is winding down this is what I do this is what I'm best at you know
00:38:47
because David had that you know cuz he was right out of eighth grade when he got started but remember David the the
00:38:53
owner of the club said to David the throwaways between the lines there's your sweet spot right David
00:39:00
>> he said my first time he said >> I go how was Uh when it was only amateur
00:39:05
night, like 3 minutes, but he goes, "Uh, it was all right. That material wasn't
00:39:11
that great." He goes, "Actually, what you were saying between was funnier."
00:39:15
Then he walked away and I was like, >> did >> then I listened to it and I was like, I
00:39:19
was saying stuff in between commenting and that sort of was my whole thing >> because that was your authentic self.
00:39:27
>> Yeah. and you are doing something you like with comedy versus a reality show
00:39:31
which you're not really doing anything. You're just like >> physically there
00:39:35
>> but in front of the camera you're getting used to pressure and performance
00:39:39
being hated. >> They would feel Yeah. Well, I think it was so great for my career for sure.
00:39:44
Like now I'm so my ego has been broken so many times that now like when and now
00:39:50
I know when to speak when not to speak. Like when I was on reality TV, I was just like, I'm just going to say my
00:39:55
truth. And now I'm like, this is not you have to protect yourself and protect
00:40:01
your family at all times. >> I've made so many mistakes when I was young. So now that I'm like really into
00:40:07
standup, I feel smarter. >> Um, but yeah, it was >> I did get I have to give credit to my
00:40:14
husband who's >> he's a big standup in Ireland. His whole career was in Ireland.
00:40:18
>> Oh, really? Oh, that's great to hear. Yeah. So, he's like experienced a lot.
00:40:23
He was the one who when I got my first Netflix special offer, he was like, "Yeah, no, you need a tour for eight
00:40:30
more months." And if he wasn't there, I would have just been like, "Okay, let's
00:40:34
film it." And he also told me cuz I just wanted to kill and I I'm a perfectionist
00:40:40
kind of. So, I'd go on stage and I just like hit it every time. And he was like,
00:40:46
"Give yourself permission to get lost on stage. Like not know where you are. Like
00:40:51
the ma, like what was said to you, like the magic is when you're trying to figure it out." And he's like, "You're
00:40:56
not going to get better unless you're loose." And that's where I kind of
00:41:00
started to get more into like the crowd work, which I think kind of gave me um a
00:41:07
little bit of my voice because I feel like I talk to people like they're my friend. Like I'm not just like and guy
00:41:12
in the front with the shirt. Like I I I actually try to like understand them. >> Yeah.
00:41:17
>> And and doing the clubs, it's so fun to talk to the audience, especially when
00:41:22
you're sick of your material. So I think crowd work was also where I was able to
00:41:26
obviously do clips and stuff, but where I was able to find my perspective. >> Yeah. Cuz I think sometimes with
00:41:33
specials, if you don't have multiple times shooting it, if it's just one
00:41:37
shot, you can you don't give yourself permission to be playful cuz this is your only time. They feel like you're
00:41:43
doing an outline. But I do think being alive in the frame on stage, they can tell if you're alive. You still got your
00:41:50
act, but there's these little throwaways. You go to someone that all does. So, um, would your husband be
00:41:57
willing to watch my stand up and just sit me down for a little? He would love to and he can talk and help you with
00:42:03
other things if you want if you're having trouble with any fights with anyone.
00:42:07
>> No, that was that was great advice. Yeah, really >> cuz Yeah, he's like my little Russian
00:42:12
gymnastics coach. But I also think my second special though, obviously like I'm a better standup, but I was just
00:42:18
sillier. Like when you're more confident, you're just like, "Yeah, I
00:42:22
could do this voice, but what if I really did that voice and leaned in and committed to it?" So, I think that's my
00:42:28
comedy's just gotten like even looser. >> You just get a little >> That's the best place place to be where
00:42:35
you're just not >> thinking up there at all and you're just going totally by instinct at moments and
00:42:41
hitting things really hard or really trying to entertain yourself a little bit. >> Yeah. And then it's funny how sometimes
00:42:46
when you like go less it's funnier with a voice, like if you say it really softly. So, I've just been having so
00:42:53
much fun on tour just playing more and cuz I I am like an energy comic. I'm not
00:42:59
like just doing like genius oneliners and being like sit with that slick one. Like
00:43:07
>> let me sit >> figure that one out. >> That's a thinker.
00:43:12
>> I'm like carry the wand. Let me know if that >> Yeah, mine aren't all thinkers. Uh
00:43:18
there's stinkers when you have a podcast that does well like Dana and I sometimes
00:43:24
go out together but Dana does fine on his own but sometimes it's fun. Well, we
00:43:29
both go out on our own also. You know what I mean? But we also could go out together. So do you do a podcast tour
00:43:36
and then you do like a regular tour or something? >> Yeah. So >> or do you not do that with a podcast? I
00:43:40
did my standup tour for my first special and then Paige and I went on the road for a Giggly Squad tour which was
00:43:48
bonkers. We did like a PowerPoint which by the way PowerPoints are hilarious. I highly recommend especially if you're
00:43:54
forgetful and when you just go to the next slide it can hit so hard. Highly recommend.
00:44:00
>> Oh it just gets a big laugh whatever you show. Oh that's funny. It's a little bit
00:44:04
of work up front but yeah you could do it >> once you're set. That's the intern get
00:44:08
there to put some stuff together. So, >> is she okay on the road? That's a tough
00:44:12
That life is tough. >> You Okay, so Paige it I'm a little sturdier. Paige is a dainty, classy
00:44:21
angel. Um, she she like gets carried places like I put her on my back like when I'm with her. I'm her boyfriend.
00:44:28
I'm putting her luggage away >> and she was like so excited about all the outfits and stuff, but we were
00:44:34
worked like dogs. like >> we would have two shows a night, four four in a four four in a row, four
00:44:41
cities. >> And she started like actually having like um panic attacks. >> Sure. That's [ __ ] tough.
00:44:50
>> And we were in Denver. There was no air and she was like trying to put on a
00:44:55
corset and she just like started crying and we were we were like there's 3,000
00:45:01
girls waiting and I was like, "Hey, can I talk to you for a second?" Um,
00:45:06
are you ready? And we like had to I basically kicked her onto the stage and I was like, the adrenaline will hit. Get
00:45:14
the [ __ ] out there. We got her some beta blockers, but she was having other stuff
00:45:17
going on. I think tour, if you're stressed about other things, tour will just take it to the next level. But, um,
00:45:24
we finished tour and she's like, I can't wait to do that again. So, >> Oh, she liked it. I mean, at least
00:45:30
you're sitting in one city with the dayto-day flying is also what gets to you. Like, pack, go, pack, get up, pack,
00:45:38
go. And you're like, >> and your body, like, I'm not working out. I'm not eating healthy. And then
00:45:43
you look in the mirror and I just tell myself I'm bloated from the flights. But
00:45:46
it's not that. >> It's not that. >> Trust me, great. >> Oh, yeah. You do. Oh, I have a question
00:45:53
for you about standup. Yeah. >> When you do a special >> Mhm. >> Do you think the female comics are more
00:45:59
pressured to really glam up because you look great in your special, but >> thank you.
00:46:04
>> We were saying like Dane was like Joan Rivers and Phyis Diller, >> Tony Fields, Phyis Diller.
00:46:10
>> Yeah, there's Rosio. You know, this it's kind of newish of >> like a guy could get away with hoodie,
00:46:16
just a hoodie. >> I always say I love these guys that just dress like school shooters, get on
00:46:22
stage. I mean, Shane, love of my life, did MSG with like his hair was just straight up
00:46:29
like he just woke up from a nap. >> Who gives a [ __ ] >> And that's a full arena. Like they can
00:46:34
see the under. And it was adorable. Yeah. Um I think >> it does suck that I have to do all this
00:46:42
glam where I'm like the boys don't have to do that, but the girls get into it.
00:46:47
Like I did like a custom outfit from this brand, Flirt Mallal. It's French. >> And then I had fake hair.
00:46:54
>> I saw the trailer. Yeah. Fake hair. >> There's more opportunities for that
00:46:59
stuff. >> Well, I hate to say it because I've always been very like I love comedy cuz
00:47:05
just about being funny, but then like the better you look, the more stuff you're getting. And
00:47:10
>> yeah, >> I got a spray tan. I had full glam. I had a corset that kept ripping. They're
00:47:16
sewing it back. It's all this chaos in addition to being like, "And now be
00:47:20
[ __ ] hilarious." Yeah. >> Which I don't love cuz I'm an athlete.
00:47:24
Like I go when I would go compete, I didn't have to worry about if my hair was in the right position. I'm like,
00:47:29
let's just play. >> Boy. Yeah. You can be a little bit of tomboy comedian, too. But I I go out
00:47:36
with Nikki Glazer a lot. And >> yes, >> she always looks great. >> We just did Caesars this weekend. I'm
00:47:41
like, >> she looks so good. I did have a hoodie on the first night and we were laughing
00:47:45
like it's the same exact [ __ ] But I'm so adorable that it's it's hard to
00:47:50
explain. I'll tell you guys after >> I I have like a working on material
00:47:55
outfit. Like you know when you're working on new stuff, that's when you come in with the hoodie. I'm working I'm
00:48:00
working on some >> Don't expect too much. >> Yeah, I just woke up. I forgot
00:48:05
everything. But >> some notes. >> I didn't start dressing up really until
00:48:09
I started doing theaters and I felt like I was just like respectful. Yeah, I feel
00:48:13
it. I feel >> Well, I have to say the bit that you land in the trailer was enhanced by your
00:48:18
look, the twerking bit, you know, and you're just because the the the outfit
00:48:22
was flaring out and the way you were moving. It was very really funny. I mean, >> thank you. I mean, you are a performer,
00:48:28
so but some guys are would look weird if they were in a suit >> and that's not their vibe.
00:48:34
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Melanie has a suit. Seinfeld has a suit. You know, it works for them.
00:48:40
>> I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm not full hoodie, but I rarely wear them. But
00:48:43
it was funny. I was thinking, who was doing this? Tim Dylan? Like, why am I falling apart like this? And I I blame
00:48:51
Tim. I blame Shane. I'm like I I try to be like, well, I'm going to a nice dinner because they pay
00:48:59
money. There's something weird about that. You go, I >> Well, it's like you're all showing up to
00:49:03
the same event. My girls get dressed up for my like theater shows. They >> Oh, that's nice. It is actually
00:49:11
I after CO I kind of stopped because I was it was too intense. But I >> kept getting co getting CO and I started
00:49:18
CO from my door. >> But a lot of the girls they really do look like me who come to my show. So
00:49:24
it's funny cuz when I try to go in the back of the stage door security's like
00:49:28
ma'am this is the stage door and I dress in a tie for my tour. >> I dress in a tie cuz that's like my my
00:49:35
outfit for this tour. I can't come up with new outfits. I'm like, "This is my
00:49:38
uniform." And all the girls show up in ties. So all of us look the same. >> So security's like, "You can't come in."
00:49:45
And I'm like, "That's me." And he's like, "You look like her." Maybe like 10
00:49:50
times on tour. They've Security's been like, "Miss, you can't go in there."
00:49:54
>> Yeah. Miss, that's for the star. >> Yeah. Literally. >> Do you have a nickname for your fans?
00:50:01
Are they called Hannah's or is there a funny kind of what are they? Burmers.
00:50:05
>> They're the gigglers. They're the gigglers. >> Oh, the gigglers. Okay.
00:50:08
>> Yeah. >> All right. Now, where the giggly squad come up? >> Do you ever go like this on stage? Where
00:50:12
are my gigglers? >> Where are my gigglers at? >> You got I tell all my openers if there's
00:50:17
ever low energy, just say gigglers. And they'll [ __ ] lose their mind. Like
00:50:21
just a few words. >> And also they're like you see them at the airport and they'll just be like,
00:50:26
"I'm a giggler." And walk by. It's like a weird Illuminati. >> I'm going to say in my act to get
00:50:31
laughs. Weird. >> Yes, it could work. It could work. Our title is too long for that. People at
00:50:37
the airport, I'm a fly on the >> Yeah. What do you call them? >> They call them frequent flyers.
00:50:42
>> Fly on the waller. >> Very cute. >> Many of them, >> David. You know, you'll go up there and
00:50:47
go, "Where's my flies?" That's like one guy. >> I don't think I've ever said where
00:50:51
>> my flies at. >> Where's my flies? >> No, I said >> I said no walkouts.
00:50:58
I like Zzz. Let me hear you. >> Where's my Where's my >> I'm going to Where are fans that land
00:51:10
and stuff and rub their hands and poop? >> Yeah. Yes. I actually was on a flight with Nikki
00:51:17
Glazer last night. >> Shut it. >> And I said, "I'm talking to your man
00:51:22
tomorrow. What should I say?" >> The Yes. Nikki and I >> What' she say? What'd she say?
00:51:30
>> What? She was like, >> "What's the word on the street around?"
00:51:32
like you and I were just we were gossiping. She was like, "Oh, he's the
00:51:35
sweetest. She's the sweetest." And I was like, "Whatever." She
00:51:40
>> I it was >> if I had enough time, I would have gotten something out of her.
00:51:44
>> But she's the best. She's been inspiring me since day one. >> She like brought me around the cellar
00:51:49
back in the day when I was like a baby. I was like, "How do you remember all
00:51:52
your jokes?" And she was answering my questions. >> She's good at it. She can remember.
00:51:56
She's like, "I'm learning stuff." It's literally does not look down at her
00:52:00
notes. It's nonstop. >> Yes. And I'm like, [ __ ] there's a hundred jokes in every minute.
00:52:07
>> [ __ ] I go, this is your rough thrown together [ __ ] I'm back there like this.
00:52:12
>> She has a follower and it's hard. She's too smart. >> Yeah, she is good, but she just keeps
00:52:18
She's a grinder, though. >> Where are you? Go. Go ahead. >> No, you know, Doner.
00:52:24
Well, I'm just curious about like, you know, we all have this 10-year-old person inside of us where,
00:52:29
>> oh, you see, you know, I used to see Rob Williams and go, I I better get better.
00:52:33
I got to be, you know, I gota I got to be as good as him. >> Sure. >> So, so we have that, but then like, so
00:52:39
Nikki's not like she can override it and not try to sabotage it. I don't even
00:52:44
read it to old, you know, she's like she's actually being nice. Like, this
00:52:49
woman clearly is no threat. No, I'm kidding. But uh >> No, Nikki and I have a very we have a
00:52:56
long backstory, Nikki and I. And it's we love each other a lot. >> Yeah.
00:53:01
>> Oh, that's good. Yeah. Well, someone has your back. I just >> also I'm a brunette, she's a blonde,
00:53:06
>> so that helps with the lack of beef. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh
00:53:12
>> oh. Dana, >> like put us on a lineup together and it's okay. >> Yeah. But then
00:53:18
>> when someone in show business climbs the ladder and you go in the green room,
00:53:22
there's just a little bit of energy like like you're f Oh, she's Oh, she's famous
00:53:27
now. You know, I mean, it's just a little >> When I was coming up, Nikki's always
00:53:30
been famous to me. >> Yeah. >> Like I recent >> When I met her, I was like, I'm obsessed
00:53:36
with you. You're incredible. You're everything. Like I I feel like everyone
00:53:40
else was late to catch John. It's just now she's like friends with like Leonardo DiCaprio and stuff.
00:53:45
>> Yeah. But I feel like when you meet someone before they pop, you always have
00:53:50
like a soft spot for each other. Even though she's been famous, but even like
00:53:53
with Shane, I'm always like, I know who you are. I know you. >> I remember you. But Oh, yeah.
00:54:00
>> I mean, you guys fame energy is is weird. >> It's weird. >> Uh, it is. It is weird. Especially, you
00:54:07
know, >> famous people non-stop in Hollywood >> with friends, like friends who knew you
00:54:11
in high school or your family. it it starts to tilt things in a way like if someone's making a fuss around you, you
00:54:18
know, all that stuff. I mean, it's not first world problems, you know, but you
00:54:22
know what I mean. >> Weird psychology. >> You go to Sports Bar in Arizona and I
00:54:26
go, "Hey, can I sit here?" They go, "Hey, whatever King Tut needs, clear it
00:54:30
away." >> Well, I'm just getting some potato skins. It's not that big a deal.
00:54:36
>> But >> all hail Caesar. But it is funny like what people literally change after like
00:54:44
completely different person. I'm like oh you've been through the it's like they get a a whole
00:54:50
transformation emotionally, physically they carry themselves differently. >> Everything I think this is how I do how
00:54:56
I think of what happens in that process. It's like I'm oh I'm funny. Oh I'm
00:55:00
making money is funny. I'm I'm really funny. I'm funny. I'm I'm super funny.
00:55:05
I'm Oh, wait. I'm important. >> Ooh, that's bad. >> That's bad. That's very
00:55:12
>> in a nutshell. >> This is what he says in his mirror every morning.
00:55:18
>> Yeah. >> He has it on a postit. >> You is good. You is important.
00:55:23
>> You is good. You the man. >> You the [ __ ] >> Yeah. >> You that you people. Wherever the [ __ ]
00:55:31
goes to hide, you that [ __ ] Haters be hated. >> That's right. >> And love is be loving.
00:55:38
>> All right. What I got I I have a another question for Hannah before we boot her
00:55:41
out of here. >> Uh you you might do a show with Amy Polar at you two bozos together.
00:55:49
>> And weird weird alert. I'm getting a I don't recognize the number.
00:55:54
>> That's Tucson for sure. That's the area code. I'm from Arizona.
00:55:57
>> I know. Well, I think I know it might be, but I'm not going to answer it. Do
00:56:00
you are you sure you don't want to expose them on the pod right now? >> Who's calling you from rehab?
00:56:05
>> No, I I there's a good one in Tucson. >> I think there are a lot of rehab.
00:56:12
>> They're about They're apologizing for something. They're in a step.
00:56:15
>> Oh, yeah. They got to say sorry. >> Yeah. >> I'm not sure.
00:56:18
>> Do you have any advice for working professionally with Amy? >> No. Amy's lovely. I don't know her as
00:56:24
well as probably Dana, but she's she's >> What do you mean? How did we get to Amy?
00:56:27
I was looking >> Amy Polar is producing her next >> Oh, Amy Polar. Yeah, she's
00:56:31
>> show. Would it be a sitcom? Would it be a reality show? What would it be?
00:56:35
>> So, it's a scripted comedy right now that we're still trying to crack,
00:56:39
>> but like a single camera. You don't know yet? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz it's people know
00:56:44
Paige and I from a a reality show. So, we have to be kind of smart with it where it's not too different but also
00:56:51
not too similar because then it's like just do a curb type thing. So, we're
00:56:55
figuring >> very hard to do those show. I'm not saying you couldn't do it. I'm saying
00:56:58
when people say curb or if I've even caught myself going, "Oh, I'd like to do
00:57:02
something like that." >> At least I even know how [ __ ] hard it is cuz we were around for Larry Sanders
00:57:07
show which was [ __ ] great. >> Yes. >> Yeah. And how hard we'd been on it a
00:57:11
little bit, but we knew Shanley and he was like going insane how hard it was. >> Yeah.
00:57:16
>> But it comes out great. >> But it looks so easy and effortless. Oh,
00:57:22
they just [ __ ] had a little banter. And >> I could do that and it's Yeah, bigger.
00:57:26
>> I know it's hard. It's Sometimes it's this, you know, with Larry David, it's
00:57:31
it feels like, you know, like a standup observation just about awkwardness or the puffy
00:57:36
pants or whatever it was, you know, just those little observations. And then he just main thing he said to us is no, the
00:57:43
only rule on the set is no one tries to be funny. No one thinks they're being
00:57:47
funny. That's that was the way. >> No, no one was performative. If they
00:57:51
started trying to be funny, it just had to be >> thrown away. >> More auditions when people be funny,
00:57:56
they go, "That's enough. Get out of here." >> Because the hyperbolic,
00:58:00
>> you know, they like throwaways. They like >> I know every read they're like, "We want
00:58:03
this grounded." >> Yeah. >> After 10 times, they go for get out of
00:58:08
here. Like they don't know what that means. >> But that's why I guess the show's fun
00:58:11
cuz you're watching comedians in their like daytoday >> being very small.
00:58:17
>> Yeah. like what it's like if they were just ordering coffee how they'd act and
00:58:21
that's fascinating actually but a lot of these comics can't turn off. >> Yeah, true.
00:58:26
>> Well, I don't know how you two are together but also another thing is
00:58:29
sometimes on Larry David they didn't weren't sure they were doing a take.
00:58:35
>> You know the cameras they got both cameras on and they're kind of kidding.
00:58:39
They don't you can see they're sort of breaking but is the character breaking
00:58:42
or is they breaking? So I don't you know there's also it's capturing that that
00:58:47
and it's just >> I also this is my first I'm like getting into acting for the first time and I've
00:58:52
never >> I've had like a couple things but I'm going to see if I enjoy it. I think I
00:58:58
like it. Do Do you guys like acting as opposed to standup? >> Well, there's two kinds of acting.
00:59:03
There's acting where some [ __ ] directors controlling you and you sign up for a script you don't truly believe
00:59:09
in. or you're one of the executive producers and your boss quote is Amy Polar. He's really smart and knows. So,
00:59:16
it'll probably be a blast if everyone's on the same sensibility vibe and you
00:59:20
know that you're getting what you want. So, >> you're already 90% there, you know, like
00:59:25
you know, >> you have instincts from doing standup and you know what works and what doesn't
00:59:29
and then you're on a reality show. You just know things >> that not everyone knows and and then
00:59:34
just figure out whatever you guys think. The funny thing is you have a tiny wispy
00:59:38
joke. I remember one time in Grown-Ups. Oh my god, a few people remember. >> And um we were doing
00:59:44
>> I remember >> iconic >> and we had to do one thing where Adam
00:59:48
goes come out of the closet and the closet >> and he goes what would you have on you
00:59:54
or something? We're like how about some arrows from Arrow Roulette, let's say,
00:59:57
with some leaves on them. And he's like, "Yeah, okay. Hey, let's get some
01:00:02
arrows." And the props guy goes, "We don't have them." He goes, "You don't
01:00:06
have them in the truck or whatever it And he goes, "No." And he goes, "Where'd
01:00:10
we get him?" And he goes, "Well, we'd have to we're in Glouster. We'd have to
01:00:12
drive to Boston. It's like an hour." He goes, "Okay." And you're like, "So the
01:00:17
guy took off." And so here's going to be minimum two hours. We're going to be
01:00:20
down. But blood sugar, >> but jokes are so important in movies that you go, if this is a wispy joke,
01:00:27
but it's even a chance. We have to take it. Because when you're in a screening
01:00:31
watching it, >> you are dying going, "Where's another joke? Where's another joke?" They're
01:00:36
starting to get bored. >> Yeah. So, so it's it's funny to see all the lights and all this and you're like,
01:00:40
"Hey, what if we tried this?" They go, "Oh, we'd have to reset the camera." And
01:00:44
someone like Adam goes, "Yeah, do it. It's too important." If this throwaway
01:00:49
look we didn't have before, we need it. And then >> you don't know what that little thing
01:00:53
is. That's >> right. You don't know what the funniest part of that scene will be
01:00:56
>> and you go, "The cutaway was the funniest part." >> Or you get the arrows and everyone's
01:01:01
like, "Actually, no." >> Right. I mean he would honestly >> there's another store two hours away
01:01:06
that has marbles. >> We did we wanted the other arrows. >> Yeah. What a
01:01:14
>> water. Let me go back. >> Look I never had this experience but if
01:01:18
you are in a situation where it's found moments I mean like they would put the
01:01:23
camera Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. They had the scene. They had the bullet things they needed or any physical
01:01:27
comedy and then it's just like what your husband said to you about being on stage. So don't act, don't try to act.
01:01:34
Just when the camera's rolling, you get to be very playful. And hopefully it'll
01:01:38
become clear like, okay, that's the one because there's a magic to you in your
01:01:44
eyes doing it for the first time, discovering. You do have to do pimp numbers. You have to let's go over
01:01:49
there. There is dialogue you have to have. >> But in those moments, if you know right
01:01:53
in that moment, you're actually just thinking this and then it comes out. That's where the magic is.
01:01:58
>> Or you get someone with a different line they weren't ready for. try something different and you don't
01:02:03
tell them and then they react whatever they would react and then you go okay let's move on but you go well we have it
01:02:09
and in editing they're going to go >> it was better the way it was or now and
01:02:13
then they go that one was better >> have you thought of everything we just
01:02:16
said to you >> I literally I'm taking notes this is so it's nice to hear you guys being like
01:02:23
you're you can do that cuz like I could just see myself trying to make Paige
01:02:27
laughed off script I mean Amy's going to be like can you not do that every line,
01:02:31
but that's so fun and that's what comedy's about. >> Yeah, it's all about just this and you
01:02:36
can tell it when you watch a show. You don't want to get too locked in. I'd say
01:02:39
have fun and don't try to ever act. >> Her job will be get people around you
01:02:42
that are good. Everyone from the editors are very important to people on the set
01:02:46
to the director. So, I have a lot of faith in it. >> Well, Amy Polar has been she's great in
01:02:51
film. She's great in sketch. I mean, so lean on Amy. >> Yeah, she it's going to be a real
01:02:57
teaching moment. >> It's something to do. It's great. I think it sounds like a blast. You got a
01:03:01
superstar podcast. You're doing this show. I mean, I don't I don't see any
01:03:05
chinks in the armor, to be honest. Hannah, >> you got your giggly zombies in the
01:03:09
airport. >> Well, you guys are gigglers now. >> Yeah. >> After what's your net worth right now?
01:03:15
Net worth. >> I have a bunch of metro cards. >> Okay. >> Yeah, metro cards.
01:03:21
>> I'm doing math in my head. Okay, you're doing pretty good. >> And they're worth a lot cuz they don't
01:03:25
use metro cards anymore. >> No, they just hop. >> Yeah. What people say is, "I got I got a
01:03:30
few beans in my jeans." I got a couple beans in my jeans. That's all you say.
01:03:36
>> Hey, you look like a [ __ ] clown. I'm doing an impression of your dad. You
01:03:40
look like a [ __ ] clown. I love you, but you What? You're going to the [ __ ] circus? What are you doing with
01:03:44
this on your [ __ ] lipstick? >> I can't wait to call my dad and tell him
01:03:48
Dana Carvey has a whole voice for him. >> Yeah. What's his What's his What's his
01:03:52
name? >> Dan. >> Dan. Hey, you can call me Dan. You can call me Stan. I don't give a [ __ ] but
01:03:57
get that [ __ ] lipstick. >> Oh, go Nick in four. >> Oh, baby. >> Hey, Nicks.
01:04:06
>> Nick Knicks are This is their best season in 27 years. >> So, I can burn the city down when they
01:04:11
win. >> Yeah. Well, hey, well, my Knicks win, I win. If they lose this, >> 911 was nothing. Is that what he said?
01:04:22
>> Why isn't ready for it? We don't have to look into the joke. >> I know it doesn't make sense, but I like
01:04:29
it. >> [ __ ] n >> I'm from New York. I could say 911. I was there.
01:04:34
>> I say you can't. I can't. >> Hannah, >> Hulu special.
01:04:41
>> Hulu. That's right. >> Hulu. >> June 5th. >> Hulu.
01:04:46
>> None of my business. >> Mhm. >> None of my business. June 5th.
01:04:51
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01:05:01
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Episode Highlights

  • Hannah's Special Promotion
    Hannah Burner discusses her upcoming special and the fun of podcasting.
    “I was like, "Yeah, I’m so honored to be here. This is awesome."”
    @ 04m 33s
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  • Sleep Habits
    A light-hearted discussion about sleep patterns and the importance of rest.
    “I love sleep. I don’t think I would have made it as a comedian if I didn’t wasn’t good at sleeping.”
    @ 08m 58s
    June 04, 2026
  • Dating Older Men
    A conversation about the benefits of dating older men and their wisdom.
    “I argue for all the girls, I want them to date older guys.”
    @ 17m 16s
    June 04, 2026
  • Father's Day Gift Ideas
    Get your dad something he’ll actually use and love with Good Ranchers' gift boxes.
    “When you buy a Father’s Day gift box, they’re going to throw in free Wagu burgers.”
    @ 20m 34s
    June 04, 2026
  • The Roast Experience
    Discussion on the dynamics of roasting and the impact it has on comedians.
    “You see actual hurt. You see pain.”
    @ 28m 46s
    June 04, 2026
  • From Reality TV to Stand-Up
    A comedian shares her journey from reality TV to finding her voice in stand-up.
    “I just want to be myself and be on stage.”
    @ 31m 16s
    June 04, 2026
  • From Reality TV to Stand-Up
    She found solace in comedy after a tough reality TV experience. "Thank God I’m not doing reality TV anymore."
    “Thank God I’m not doing reality TV anymore.”
    @ 36m 57s
    June 04, 2026
  • Finding Her Voice
    She learned to embrace crowd work, which helped her discover her comedic voice. "The magic is when you’re trying to figure it out."
    “The magic is when you’re trying to figure it out.”
    @ 40m 53s
    June 04, 2026
  • Touring Challenges
    Despite the stress of touring, Paige expressed excitement to do it again. "I can’t wait to do that again."
    “I can’t wait to do that again.”
    @ 45m 26s
    June 04, 2026
  • The Giggler Connection
    Fans affectionately refer to themselves as gigglers, creating a unique bond. "I’m a giggler."
    “I’m a giggler.”
    @ 50m 26s
    June 04, 2026
  • Acting vs. Standup
    Exploring the differences between acting and standup comedy.
    “There’s two kinds of acting.”
    @ 59m 03s
    June 04, 2026
  • Comedy's Importance
    The significance of jokes in movies and the pressure to deliver humor.
    “Jokes are so important in movies.”
    @ 01h 00m 25s
    June 04, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • You couldn’t tie those if you gave it to props.
    Hannah Berner: Gossiping with Nikki Glaser, working with Amy Poehler, and Giggly Squad
  • This guy's good. This guy's good.
    Hannah Berner: Gossiping with Nikki Glaser, working with Amy Poehler, and Giggly Squad
  • Always leave before your peak.
    Hannah Berner: Gossiping with Nikki Glaser, working with Amy Poehler, and Giggly Squad
  • Thank God I’m not doing reality TV anymore.
    Hannah Berner: Gossiping with Nikki Glaser, working with Amy Poehler, and Giggly Squad
  • I’m a giggler.
    Hannah Berner: Gossiping with Nikki Glaser, working with Amy Poehler, and Giggly Squad
  • It’s all about just this and you can tell it when you watch a show.
    Hannah Berner: Gossiping with Nikki Glaser, working with Amy Poehler, and Giggly Squad

Key Moments

  • Bad Timing00:18
  • Comedy Friends19:14
  • Crowd Work Discovery41:00
  • Touring Struggles44:45
  • Giggler Fans50:06
  • Friendship Bonds52:59
  • Fame Dynamics53:27
  • Acting Insights59:00

Words per Minute Over Time

Vibes Breakdown