Funny You Should Mention

Sure, stand-up comedy makes us laugh, but that’s not its only purpose. Comics use the stage to make arguments and express bigger picture world-views, getting people to laugh in the process of making deeper points. In Funny You Should Mention, a new comedy series from Mike Pesca and The Comedy Cellar, Mike spends an hour with each comic, seeking to identify a broader thesis, and pressing comics to put a finer point on their arguments. Funny comes first, but it’s ideas that are explored on Funny You Should Mention.

Funny You Should Mention: Rosebud Baker 06/20/2025

Funny You Should Mention: Rosebud Baker Rosebud Baker joins Funny You Should Mention with the rare gift of making life’s toughest moments hilarious, and a point of view that’s inseparable from the punchline. Her Netflix special Motherlode delivers pregnancy, parenting, and political edge in one biting package. We talk about her SNL writing process and how to satirize breastfeeding pressure without becoming a parenting brand. Plus: how riding a dolphin convinced her husband to get a hair transplant. Produced by Corey Wara Production Coordinator Ashley Khan Email us at To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or visit Subscribe to The Gist: Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: Subscribe to The Gist Instagram Page: Follow The Gist List at: /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/37095320

Funny You Should Mention: Chris Turner 06/06/2025

Funny You Should Mention: Chris Turner Comedian, freestyler, and archaeology grad Chris Turner joins the show to explain how a middle-class British kid became one of the most dazzling improv lyricists in comedy. From his early days writing one-liners to mesmerizing crowds at the Comedy Cellar with rhymes about chlamydia, Hispaniola, and Jerry Springer, Turner charts a path that makes no sense—until you see it live. He talks about bombing in polite accents, fax machines causing drive-by shootings, and why freestyling is more like tennis than /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980775

Funny You Should Mention: Robby Hoffman 05/23/2025

Funny You Should Mention: Robby Hoffman Comedian, podcaster, and self-described cutie-in-her-own-way Robby Hoffman drops by to discuss her life, her comedy, and why she takes talking as seriously as any other art form. From growing up ultra-Orthodox and ultra-poor to becoming a sought-after stand-up with a Porsche no one wants, Hoffman explains how she’s thrived in disaster and learned to mine discomfort for laughs. The two explore America’s national personality deficit, what makes a story worth telling, and the joys of conflict when you grow /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980780

Funny You Should Mention - Michelle Buteau 05/02/2025

Funny You Should Mention - Michelle Buteau Michelle Buteau stops by to talk about getting high in the reptile house and why she caught flak for doing spon-con souptroversy. We also get into her Dutch husband, the spirituality she doesn’t buy into, and whether her socialism can coexist with her ambition to get paid. Plus, we ask: can a /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980785

Funny You Should Mention - T.J. Miller 04/18/2025

Funny You Should Mention - T.J. Miller Comedian T.J. Miller joins this episode of Funny You Should Mention. You might know him from Silicon Valley, Deadpool, or that time he had a choice between brain surgery with a 10% fatality rate vs. almost surely dying by 35. It is the funniest conversation ever had with the phrase "10% fatality rate" hanging in the air. Also why T.J. insists that comedy should feel like jazz played on a flaming trampoline, and how to let a crowd set the course while always steering the ship. /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980790

Funny You Should Mention Season 2 - Alex Edelman 04/04/2025

Funny You Should Mention Season 2 - Alex Edelman Comedian Alex Edelman joins this episode of Funny You Should Mention. Alex’s hit one-man show Just For Us was a Broadway sensation and is now streaming on Max. In this conversation, we talk about the anatomy of a bad set, the five constituencies for a joke, and what it takes to turn a pile of bits into a fully realized piece of theater. Plus: how being “right” can be the biggest obstacle to being funny. /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980795

Funny You Should Mention: Roy Wood Jr. 03/18/2025

Funny You Should Mention: Roy Wood Jr. Comedian Roy Wood Jr., host of CNN’s Have I Got News for You and former Daily Show correspondent, joins this episode of Funny You Should Mention. We delve into topics like a near-DUI incident in South Dakota, why the police should occasionally let a criminal go free, and the responsibility comedians have to challenge harmful political ideas—and the politicians who promote them. We also explore the surprising lessons humanity can learn from floating balls of ants and what it reveals when the premise /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980800

Funny You Should Mention: Mike Yard 03/18/2025

Funny You Should Mention: Mike Yard Mike Yard is a standup comic who has appeared on Inside Amy Schumer, Flatbush Misdemeanors, and was a contributor to The Nightly Show with Larry WiImore. He is both an ex-felon and a union leader at the Museum of Modern Art. In this conversation, we discuss Yard's jokes about his pro-prison stance, leaving the Virgin Islands for the worst neighborhood in Brooklyn, and his suspicions about candlelight vigils. /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980805

Funny You Should Mention: Django Gold 03/18/2025

Funny You Should Mention: Django Gold Django Gold is a stand-up comedian, a former writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and a veteran of The Onion. In his stand-up special "Bag of Tricks," he explores not being cool, show-off toilet seats, and the privilege of owning multiple pairs of scissors. His comedy has been described as "cynical and bizarre" but also "surprising, insightful and properly deranged." We discuss the right amount of weird to present to the audience without seeming too weird, and the evolution of the archetype of n /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980810

Funny You Should Mention: Sam Jay 03/18/2025

Funny You Should Mention: Sam Jay Our third installment of Funny You Should Mention welcomes Sam Jay, former SNL writer, Tom Brady Roaster, host of HBO's Pause with Sam Jay, and stand-up comic behind such specials as Netflix's 3 In The Morning and HBO's Salute Me or Shoot Me. Sam and Mike talk cops, racism, white vs black people money management, and a joke she'll discuss but won't be telling again. /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980815

Funny You Should Mention: Rachel Feinstein 03/18/2025

Funny You Should Mention: Rachel Feinstein Rachel Feinstein’s acting credits include HBO’s Crashing, Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, and Hulu’s Life & Beth. Her latest stand-up special, Big Guy, came out on Netflix earlier this year. Rachel comes from a family of intellectual giants, though doesn’t include herself in that category. In Mike’s conversation with her, however, she reveals her insightfulness, which is better suited for comedy than the classroom. Plus she channels her mother, husband, and a variety of Staten Island firefi /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980820

Funny You Should Mention - Nimesh Patel 03/18/2025

Funny You Should Mention - Nimesh Patel Funny You Should Mention Episode One: Nimesh Patel. Over his career Nimesh Patel has gone from a comedian who wants to make points and jokes to a purely joke-oriented comic. He’s somewhat of the prefect comedian to kick off this series which looks at comedy routines as if they were an argument or an Op-ed. Nimesh has actually written Op-Eds for the NY Times. We discuss being kicked off stage at Columbia University, eviscerating the healthcare system when over a dozen of your cousins are doctors, and more /episode/index/show/ba081611-376e-4917-98d7-ff92b0ce8de1/id/36980825

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