B. J. Porter

Brian Posehn went up at 4:45 in the morning. And he gets lost at a certain point. I don't know if we…

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For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The…

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I think one reason why our show is popular too is that we have relationships with all these people. They are our…

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: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they…

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And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And…

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Comedy Central was really impressed by how quickly we got everyone to sign the releases for the CD. They've never seen anything…

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It's really important to keep sponsoring young people so the audience gets used to them and starts enjoying them. They're the only…

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It's something we do every week. Every week kind of has bigger name headliners. It's all just our taste. There's a lot…

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So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year,…

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Some of the subject matter is a little less weighty. When we were writing for Mr. Show, we were talking about how…

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We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a…

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With a sketch show, it's "a bunch of people and they're being funny." In a way that you can't really explain it.

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Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love - I won't mention his name - gave a…

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And with this show we're trying to be a little sillier. We can do a piece like one we wrote the other…

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The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars…

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When Scott and I started, every time we performed we wrote a whole new bit. We didn't know this wasn't the way…

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It's a very different show because of the elements that we're putting in. There's so many different styles of comedy, but Mr.…

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There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front…

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The second disk was taped at our all-night anniversary show. And some of those sets are taped at like 4:30 or 5…

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There's so many variables in comedy. Comedy is not this thing that's a performance like a play. It's really an interaction with…

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Scott and I had just worked with Jimmy Pardo doing a live show over the summer. And it was a lot of…

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Andy Kindler. Andy's set - somehow he slayed that night. But something weird about it that wasn't translating for the CD. I…

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