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Augie Smith

Augie Smith

Auggie Smith is a Portland-based stand-up comedian and Big Sky Comedy Festival host, winner of the 2010 Seattle and San Francisco International Comedy Competitions, heard regularly on The BOB & TOM Show.

Sep 10, 2026

5:13
And
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they saw me, and I came, and I auditioned for them in Florida.
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And the audition in Florida was for old people and their parents.
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And the show...
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In Florida, it was at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
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I did a show at 2 o'clock in the afternoon for people that had blocked the doors of Southern high schools so that black people couldn't enter.
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So I do just all, all of my just vanilla jokes, just my dry bar act I do for them.
9:24
Do you have to tone it down when you're on the
12:00
[laughs]
12:01
... and, uh, how completely un- unbangable the, most of the cruise was.
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So, like, I thought this would be the Love Boat, but man, this is like e- most of you got on here to throw the Heart of the Ocean overboard.
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[laughs]
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[laughs] The first, the first cruise, they, they just judged on whatever the crew said, and they really liked me.
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And, uh, then the second cruise and the third cruise, they had a corporate goon that was-
16:02
I'm going to ask you what part of your career has being a dad to those three kids helped?
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Okay, this is a big question that has a big answer, but I'm going to try to narrow it as much as possible.
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Having children, as you know, and as anybody else with children knows, either makes you a better person or a worse person.
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Those are the two possibilities.
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With me, it made me a better person.
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Thank goodness.
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And so just being a better person makes you a better comic.

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