Comedy Central

If you are listening on audio, it's out tomorrow, uh, on the 27th.

And if you are watching a video, it is out today on October 27th on Comedy Central's YouTube channel.

It is the first, uh, full length live action standup special that Comedy Central has put out in five years.

And that's a whole can of worms.

Comedy Central has been in hibernation for a very long

time.

That's my word, not theirs.

We don't just need to repurpose all this old shit all the time here because the internet's forever.

It was like in the 2010s, probably.

Workaholics on Comedy Central, I think.

Fucking brilliant show.

But there's this one character.

I got really good at throwing things like right next to people's heads.

It was a skill I developed on stage, right? I would like, you know, I got really good at almost hitting people with stuff until I hit someone from Comedy Central in the face with a hot dog and they told us we were going to have a television show and that's fine.

Um, the, uh,

I mean, that's the kind of stuff we want to hear on Mindy's Comedy Archive.

But the one time it mattered, I didn't.

The dog and the bun split.

and the lady who ran Comedy Central at the time, I can't remember her name, she was in the audience, and the hot dog hit her square in the face.

And

It's the fact that you're ready to level up and somebody won't let you forget your past because they're terrified of what you'll become.

Williams turned down deals from Diddy Comedy Central.

Amid navigating industry politics and occasionally ruffling Hollywood's feathers, Williams details two multi-million dollar deals that he was offered and quickly declined.

He said the first, with Comedy Central, came not long after Dave Chappelle walked away from his hit sketch show and left behind a $50 million contract.

Comedy Central calls my agent after Chappelle bounced Africa.

My agent says they want to just talk.

No agenda.

And he's exposing that artifice and what he's doing there.

And that is a that is one of the through lines throughout, because then you get to Nathan on your side, the Comedy Central series where he's like, You know, a graduate graduate of Canada's business school with good grades and he's giving businesses of advice, but he's giving them the most ridiculous advice.

But he's coaching them to play along and they're playing along when he's trying to see how far these people will go in this performance that he's coaxing out of them before they reach a breaking point.

And so that all of that, this idea of like.

These companies were wildly profitable.

MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, CBS.

These are major American brands.

Paramount was a phenomenal film studio.

It's crazy that studios let him do this stuff.

Because and I'm sure like Nathan, like Nathan for you, success on Comedy Central is part of the reason that then like gave him the credibility to do like the rehearsal, for example.

But you're investing.

OK, minor spoilers for the rehearsal season one.

Jeff, your turn.

Well, Billy, we should get you on Comedy Central.

Some of those roasts.

You'd be good at that.

Okay, good.

All right, what's coming up on TV, Mr. Frost? Tonight on Comedy Central, we have the new Jordan Klepper, Fingers the Pulse.

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