Episode notes
It's comedy and muscle this week on the BFG Podcast, why not? Host Neal Pollack leans heavily on the expertise of standup comedy expert Robert Dean to discuss the wildly popular new specials from Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais. Robert loves Chappelle but agrees with Neal that he's gotten so famous that he doesn't really need to work out new materials anymore, compared with, say, Joe Rogan, who spends years honing his set in small clubs, perfecting the joke structure. Gervais, Robert likens more to "Richard Dawkins with a laugh track." He then says something like "I'd rather hear a joke about a guy fucking a jar of peanut butter than listen to 20 minutes about why God doesn't exist." Fair enough! We break down the world of standup comedy, complete with dark-horse recommendations.
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