Lewis Black has finally had enough… There’s a lot for the modern comedy icon to look back on (and look forward to) - Lewis gets to the root of where all that anger he has on stage comes from in real life (he learned some of it from watching his mom yell at the TV), and how he channels it. Dan and Lewis also walk through his career– from years of playwriting off-off-broadway, to getting big break after big break, to finally deciding to retire from a life on tour. Lewis and Dan also share stories about their brothers, and get into the spirituality of feeling someone’s presence after they’ve passed on. Don’t miss your last chance to see Lewis live on his “Goodbye Yeller Brick Road, The Final Tour.” Visit lewisblack.com for tickets and tour dates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Hello and welcome to South Beach Sessions. I'm particularly excited about this one because this man is a giant, a titan in the comedy industry. You usually don't get to do it for close to 40 years. Usually you age out, something happens, and it's hard to keep up. But he's got his present tour, which he claims is the last one. I do not believe him. Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road, the final tour.
You can find tickets at lewisblack.com. I want to see if some of these numbers are right because... You have done, in some years, 250 shows in a year?
Well, close to that, but 200, yeah.
Okay, so if I say 40 plays, three best-selling books, 12 comedy albums, 14 specials, two Grammys, what am I missing? And about 20,000 shows in a lifetime? Yeah.
I don't know what the number is, but all the other numbers were kind of around the right place.
Okay. What are you proudest of in there? Like if I tell you you can only choose one of those things to hold up as the best part of your legacy, what do you assign the greatest worth to?
It would be stand-up because it – I wanted to be a playwright. And along the way, I kind of, because I was doing that and it was at a drama school, I learned from the actors there. So I started to perform more and be in plays more. So I mean, but you know, so it was, I was writing plays and then acting in shows. And I thought, and I never wanted to direct. But that was the thing about standup.
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