The Lou Perez Podcast - Brandon Bassham
The Lou Perez Podcast
Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy If you’ve been following my work over the past 10 years, you’ve met . Although Brandon hasn’t appeared on screen in any of my projects, he’s been behind some of my favorite sketches and darkest jokes, like -inspired “The Problem with Bumbleebee Man.” On this episode, I talk with Brandon about horror, comedy, and his work with , which includes his feature film and his latest, (in which I play a small but memorable sex-creep role). And we spend a...
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The Lou Perez Podcast - Brandon Bassham
The Lou Perez Podcast
PODCAST COPY Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy If you’ve been following my work over the past 10 years, you’ve met . Although Brandon hasn’t appeared on screen in any of my projects, he’s been behind some of my favorite sketches and darkest jokes, like -inspired “The Problem with Bumbleebee Man.” On this episode, I talk with Brandon about horror, comedy, and his work with , which includes his feature film and his latest, (in which I play a small but memorable sex-creep role)....
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The Lou Perez Podcast - Brooks Crenshaw
The Lou Perez Podcast
Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy Girl, did you hear about Minos’s wife and the white bull? Pasiphaë was on that carnivore diet. Just a lil gossip from antiquity, thanks to Brooks Crenshaw, whose The Daedulus Thread, is a hell of a follow. Check out W.H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts.” In addition to talking about how mortals should never try to fool the gods, Brooks shares what he considers his greatest failure: washing out of BUD/S. Although he didn’t become a Navy SEAL, he overcame his failure (which would have been a success...
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The Lou Perez Podcast - José Cordeiro
The Lou Perez Podcast
PODCAST COPY Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy My conversation with , author of , was so alive! We considered the lobster, biological rejuvenation, biohacker Bryan Johnson’s weird face and (I imagine equally weird-looking) penis, the euthanasia-to-cryonics pipeline, and José’s favorite student, Argentina’s president . José’s optimism is infectious. And for the hour we spoke I felt like we were beating death. So stop by for the good vibes and stick around until the end for a travel hack any mortal or immortal can...
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The Lou Perez Podcast - Boris Khaykin and Harry Terjanian
The Lou Perez Podcast
On this episode of The Lou Perez Podcast, I enjoy the comedy and hair stylings of my friends and frequent co-conspirators Boris Khaykin and Harry Terjanian. We talk about going bald, what children reveal about theory of mind, pranksters that don’t do pranks, Tony Hinchcliffe’s set at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally, my one-sided war with cholo-face cultural appropriator Lou Diamond Phillips, and a lil cancellation in Texas. We also get to share the times we’ve laughed the hardest. If you’re free tonight November 4th, I’ll be performing on Electoral Dysfunction at The Grisly...
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The Lou Perez Podcast - Chris Freiman
The Lou Perez Podcast
Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy I’ve been following Chris Freiman on X for a while. You should too. And while you’re at it, subscribe to his Substack. I had a great time talking to the political philosopher about “degrowth;” automation; pickleball — which may be more fun to say than it is to play; and how those calling for collectivist communes are always the very people no one wants to commune with. I give Zora Neal Hurston’s Why the Negro Won’t Buy Communism (1951) a shoutout. And we hit on Cuba a little bit. A decade ago...
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The Lou Perez Podcast - Yiatin Chu
The Lou Perez Podcast
I had a great time talking with one of New York Magazine’s “Most Powerful New Yorkers You’ve Never Heard Of,” Yiatin Chu. Yiatin is running for New York Senate to represent District 11 (which includes my hometown of Little Neck, Queens). Yiatin and I discussed the trappings of turning a blind eye to local government to spend more time bingeing the soap opera of national politics. The local has gone loco, whether it’s NYC’s failing grade on public education, the sausage fest that are migrant shelters, and pro-criminal legislators ruining the city Yiatin and I both love(d)....
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The Lou Perez Podcast - Robert Steinfeld
The Lou Perez Podcast
Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy What do you do after winning 10 Emmys? You come on my podcast. Ten-time Emmy winner Robert Steinfeld joined me to discuss his book 3…2…1…We’re On the Air: An Inside Look at Sports Television, Journalism, and Gender Equity. We got into the WNBA (where Steinfeld’s been Executive Producer of the Dallas Wings), talked about playing little league with Mickey Mantle’s son, working Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell, and the great Bill Walton (who wrote the introduction to 3…2…1…). Steinfeld...
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The Lou Perez Podcast - Jesse Burkhart
The Lou Perez Podcast
Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy On this episode of The Lou Perez Podcast, I talk with Jesse Burkhart. What began as a cheeky back-and-forth on X, turned into an interesting conversation about fatherhood, addiction, rehab in the Marines, stolen valor, and more. doesn’t want you thanking him for his military service, but you should thank him for his service on The Lou Perez Podcast. Especially the part where Jesse gives advice on hiding money from messed-up parents. Support me at Join my newsletter ...
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The Lou Perez Podcast - Dr. Randall Bock
The Lou Perez Podcast
Where have all the male gynecologists gone? On this episode of the podcast I’m joined by my friend — a real doctor. And a real good dude. Dr. Bock has saved the life of at least one victim of a bar-fight stabbing (who then tried to kill the good doctor); helped heroin-addicted moms-to-be get clean, so their newborns wouldn’t suffer through withdrawal; and reveals a life-saving hack to use when someone’s fainted. You don’t have to listen to the episode to find out what to do to help a fainter: Basically just give them room and lift their legs up, so blood is directed back to their...
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Who am I?
Lou Perez, author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY.
I produce the Comedy Is Murder series with Free the People. I was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During my tenure at WTI, 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.”
In addition to producing sketch comedy, stand-up, and opinion writing, I am on the advisory board of Heresy Press and host the live show The Wrong Take with Lou Perez andThe Lou Perez Podcast.
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 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.