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"Finding oneself [is] a misnomer: a self is not found but made." – From Dawn to Decadence
Big thanks to my guest Jon Miltimore for turning me onto the ever so quotable Jacques Barzun (quoted above).
On this episode, Jon and I talk about the culture of wrestling—whose default setting is tough-as-nails—and we grapple with "Minnesota nice," shitty service, and women who start fights their men have to finish.
I've been reading Jon's work for years, but if you're looking for a good place to start, check out his viral piece about Starbucks and the decline of good manners and service. When those fall, we're all doomed. Not just the venti-latte drinkers among us.
Thanks to Elon Musk, my video, James Bond has a license to kill hate speech, has now reached __ million views. (Click the link to find out how many exactly.)
I'm almost a week into my birthday celebration of 50 BURPEES A DAY FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY! I've been rocking XX-XY Athletics the whole time, as I painfully push-up and jump towards 43 years old. It's my way to WORK OUT, SPEAK OUT! You can get 20% off your purchase of the perfect burpee gear with promo code LOU20.
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Who am I?
Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and author of That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore. You may have seen him on FOX's Gutfeld! and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the head writer and producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV and produces Comedy Is Murder, a sketch comedy series with Free the People. Lou is a FAIR-in-the Arts fellow, on the advisory board of Heresy Press, and hosts the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast.
During my tenure at We the Internet, I made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: "How I Became a 'Far-Right Radical."
How'd I start out?
I began doing improv and sketch comedy while an undergrad at New York University, where I was part of the comedy group the Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz.
For years, I performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and my comedy duo, Greg and Lou. G&L are probably best known for our sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views across online platforms.
I was a writer for Fox Sports' @TheBuzzer; produced The Attendants with the Above Average Network; produced pilots for FOX Digital and MSN Games; and was a comedy producer on TruTV's Impractical Jokers.
I hosted the stand-up show Uncle Lou's Safe Place in Los Angeles, performed at the Big Pine Comedy Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and co-created the political comedy podcast Unsafe Space. I've opened for Jimmy Dore, Rich Vos, Dave Smith, and Rob Schneider.
I taught creative writing at the City College of New York, "writing the web series" for Writing Pad, and comedy writing workshops for the Moving Picture Institute.
