Name: LA Comedy Podcast Scene | Nick Mullen on The Adam Friedland Show
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'LA Comedy Podcast Scene | Nick Mullen on The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-26. Transcript available.

I didn't really do anything when we did the special in Denver.
It was so hot.
Yeah.
That was like, that was burning.
It was very good, dude.
It was crazy how hot it was.
It looked really pretty, too.
Oh, the special?
The special?
Yeah.
Oh, I'm talking about the heat.
No, I know you weren't complimenting yourself.
I know you.
Sorry, this is not a Los Angeles comedy podcast.
Bro, when I put, when that came out, you don't have to, you have to, it's fire.
Dude.
It was the face of the sun, right?
Yeah.
Oh, he's an animal.
New York guy is an L.A. podcast.
Yeah, New York guy.
Yeah.
He's a fucking animal.
He's sweatpants for $800.
Yeah.
My accent, a lot of people, they can't figure out what it is.
It's actually specific to the comedy store.
Yeah.
It's a belly room accent.
It's a belly room accent.
Everyone talks like this.
It's sort of like the Bronx meets death.
He's Haitian a little bit.
A little stink of Haitian in there.
A stinky Haitian guy is sort of what.
I don't know where I'm, where I'm coming from.
Am I Dominican?
I don't know.
But I'm selling dickies.
Yeah.
It's funny because, you know, like it, that, that is the real pendulum.
Because I was just talking with somebody the other day.
I was like, I, we started the same time, right?
Mid, like 2005, 2006.
And like when I got into comedy, that's like when all quote unquote alt comedy
was huge.
And all the comedians starting out were like, there was this criticism you'd
hear from like the comedy snobs in the scene where somebody would show up to do
an open mic and it'd be their first time.
They'd do bad and then the comics would be like pulling shit on them and then
be like, yeah, this guy's to probably think, he's like the funny guy around the
office.
Right.
And he thinks he can do comedy.
And it's like, yeah, that's the, that should be the prerequisite for doing
comedy.
Right.
Yeah.
It should be somebody that people.
That you're fun to be around.
Yeah.
That you're funny.
Somebody that's fun to be around that people like at their awful job.
Yeah, exactly.
Not a fucking, not a, not a nerd snob that reverse engineered human being.
That has never said one funny thing.
Yeah, right.
Back when dudes were wearing a hoodie with a suit coat over it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, purple American apparel.
Yeah.
And if it weren't for that, that eventually, I mean, I guess it kind of has
overlap with the Chris Hardwick world of like just explicitly nerd comedy.
Right.
Which was mostly a smokescreen for raping women.
Right, yeah.
For unrepentant sex crimes.
There's nothing nerdier than a sex crime.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, right, exactly.
That guy's a total dwee.
There's a giant.
Look at that Dorcas over there.
There's a giant alley behind wherever At Midnight was filmed.
It stands for lack of consent.
What a square.
And the reaction to that is like the L.A. sneaker guy comedy.
Yeah.
It's like now comedy's got to be a.
MMA style.
Yeah, a 47-year-old guy taking karate.
Cauliflower year.
It was never cool.
Yeah, it was not cool.
When I started, it was the furthest thing from cool.
No, you should be like the best setup for a comedian culturally is like Kirk
Van Houten.
Yeah, exactly.
He's like a middle-class guy.
Uh-huh.
He wants to borrow a feeling.
Right, yeah.
It's like at first at a bar, maybe kind of annoying that he's talking to you,
but you're
like, oh, this guy's kind of funny.
He's fine.
Yeah, this guy's kind of funny.
I don't mind him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Funny guy around the alphas.
That's all I want.
Yeah, it shouldn't have been alphas.
Yeah.
It shouldn't have been alphas, and it shouldn't have been extremely bitter fascist
nerds that
just want to rape girls.
Yeah.
I think that was also probably bad.
UCB.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
What's UCB up to now?
Are they still around?
Um, I think that they still have like that show.
That show is back.
What was the big stand-up show that they did?
Crash?
What was it called?
Whirling.
Laser crack.
Laser awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cat bacon.
Super fucked awesome.
Chee-burger.
Chee-burger.
Fun-top-polis.
Yeah.
Some crap.
That's a fun era to go back and look at.
It was like 2009 through 2012.
Every show.
I was making my bones.
There was a fake show, because somebody had a stand-up show just called Dog
Shit.
That's funny.
Then every show was holy fuck for a while.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, it's holy fuck became what, Sleepaway Camp?
I think so.
Is that the extension?
Yeah.
But yeah, very much that branding of what now just looks like shirts from
Target.
Yeah, exactly.
Then now the-
It's the two-for-ones at Spencer's where your show title.
Are you guys ready to have a super awesome, fucking super good time?
Are we doing this?
Super.
We're doing it.
Are we doing it?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
You remember, are we doing this?
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
Ooh, we're doing it.
We're all splitting this check.
I remember, yeah, you would go to-
Said no one ever.
I'd go to Open Mics in Los Angeles and not get on either, too, in like 2011.
And yeah, you'd watch comic after comic, and half of it is just like-
So I did a thing.
It's just fucking like-
It's that singing thing.
Did you get a different fucking Yeti?
I had this one before you got the black one.
You Yeti checking it?
What do you mean?
I bought him a Yeti as a gift, and he's lost it twice.
It's at my house, and I have two.
Humblebrag.
That's one of the special colors, too.
The black Yeti?
No, that one.
The green?
Yeah.
Campfire green.
Yeah.
When I went to Austin-
Don't mix it up with a cook stove.
When I went to Austin, they were like, you got campfire green?
Yeah.
Brother?
Chartreuse is, that's a cool, that's a little too cool for me.
The color is chartreuse.
Is it green?
Yeah, it's like serge.
I thought it was red my whole life.
Nah.
I thought it was like a wine red.
It does, it seems like, because of the name, it seems like it would be like an
old kind
of, sort of, you know, yeah.
Like a drape color.
No, it's a very fun color.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Chartreuse.
It's also a drink.
Girl, I love chartreuse.
Chartreuse.
You got any chartreuse colored?
Chartreuse?
You got anything that's chartreuse colored?
It would be fun to go back to those shows, though, and, like, be kind of good.
And not, when I would do those shows in L.A., I would be so concerned with
doing well to
impress all the L.A. comics who could never do a half hour in Wyoming.
Yeah, right.
You know?
You know, I would be coming in renegade, wearing overalls, smelling terrible,
and, like,
trying to do jokes that work for oil miners and, like, Brookings.
I would sit there and get blackout drunk, be like, cut this show, and they're
like,
blah!
And they're like, who's this guy?
I'd be pacing like an animal in the alleyway, and then people would be like,
what's up?
I opened for you in Chicago, and I'd be like, leave me alone.
Yeah, it was bad times.
I'm so sorry.