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Hello, welcome to South Beach Sessions. I'm saying this to this man right here and to you as well because I'm excited to have this conversation with Josh Johnson because, among other things, a hot... comedian who's doing stand-up comedy differently. He's been an Emmy-winning writer for The Daily Show and other shows. I am fascinated how all this came to be.
You're awfully young to have had some of the successes that you have now in doing the stage work that is different than just about anybody is doing these days because you're doing it topically. You're a content furnace. You're able to do comedy sets from club to club that change with the news. That's not something that's been seen too much in my
Yeah, I mean, I just I guess I just don't do anything else. So that helps. Like if you just if you just are.
uh, writing as much as you can all the time, then, you know, you, you do end up in a, in a place where you have a lot to bring to the next show for the next night or the next city. And I, I, I think because I am like naturally, uh, off by myself a little bit, this is something that's been leading up to this moment of, of, um,
how I've always been mixed with what I'm really passionate about, which is stand up. And not necessarily just politics in general, but the way that people are digesting the news and everything. Because I think that sometimes we don't give ourselves credit that something is happening that's not really new. And so you hear people go on and on about like a new development of a story.
But then if you look at the wider context of history, you see that this is really just a big part of it is cyclical. And I think that one puts me a little bit at ease to joke about it, but then also makes it so that hopefully I bring something a bit fresh to the idea.
Can you explain to the people the process of I don't do anything else, all I'm doing is writing that makes you somebody who's curious about the world. This is a unique time in the world. There are a lot of people at this trough trying to make things. I imagine you're super stimulated so it doesn't even feel like work to you.
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