#882 - Tom Papa
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Tom Papa is a comedian, actor, writer and television/radio host. Check out his new special "Human Mule", debuts on EPIX on December 9 at 8pm.
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Confusion if you don't get it. You don't get it. They're about subterfuge And we're live Tom papa who has a special this Friday coming out on epics. Oh No way. Oh Kind of special me. It's comedy. He does jokes. He's hilarious hilarious and gregarious So charming he's a fucking sourdough expert The Sultan of sourdough. Where'd you film your special Cleveland? Ah? Cleveland's fun. I love Cleveland. It's a good place to do it I've been going there for a long time and I love the people in Cleveland. Where'd you do it? What place Hannah theater? Yeah, and? Playhouse Square District kind of thing really nice theater and you know I've been going to Cleveland for a long time I like the people there. It's got that good mix of you know hopefulness, but Grounded in reality. Let's make it a comeback. It is that city's really making a comeback. It really is craft store and craft breweries and nice restaurants. I know when I started going there, you couldn't eat healthy if you tried like it was just corn beef and Now, you know 15 years later, there's vegan restaurants. There's all these like, you know these noodle places It's just it's completely come up, but you know when when LeBron left They were devastated. How crazy is that one guy the whole city throws a ball into a hole? Completely they took his banner off the side of the building and it was over And since he came back and then won it It's changed the whole place. I remember how much they hated him when he left. I was like, this is ridiculous But why are you so mad the guy had to get some money, but it was real. Yeah, it was real Like there's a difference when you go there now people there's like a pride. They're walking around like well They have the heavyweight champion the UFC to oh, they do steep a meo check He's from my Cleveland. Yeah, and the baseball team went to the World Series So they were like really like pretty hot fuckers, but they have the Browns with Joey's Is that bad? They're bad, but they had Jim Brown. They had Jim Brown, but still they haven't won one game They haven't won one game this year. We're a football team. Yeah, how many games they played? We're up to 9 or 10. Hey, give him some time No, but I really love that that city and I really liked it for stand-up and I figured it was a good mile marker you know you do these specials and it's like okay, this was this period, you know, yeah, and I Figured this is a good place. I'd like to commemorate, you know, my time in Cleveland and this material at this point and it was good How often do you like to do specials? This is my fourth They come every like two and a half years Yeah, it's pretty much half the standard number now So everyone seems to like a lot of guys were trying to do them every year like Louie was doing one every year for a while But then he was like, you know what? They're not as good when I do it once a year. They're not I call them premise pilots There's a lot there's over the last five years a lot of premise pilots like people just rushing them out And it's like yeah, that's a good idea Imagine in three years what that joke would be right, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, and that's the thing I think even two and a half years and I try and just do it when it's ready But I feel like you two and a half years is kind of rushing it. There's jokes if they stay in your act for five years It's no joke that that thing becomes something different. They become better. Yeah become better You find out where the beats are you find out where the pauses should be you find out where maybe you there were some tags Yeah, you developed along the way that led you in a totally different direction. You're thinking about it differently There's a confidence that you have in delivering it that's different than you just pushing it out there But you can't the way that people digest everything now. You can't wait five years
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Tom Papa is a comedian, actor, writer and television/radio host. Check out his new special "Human Mule", debuts on EPIX on December 9 at 8pm.
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