Comedy Gallery called L.A. and told all the agents, if any of your comics work for Acme, They're not working for Comedy Gallery and he had like 12 rooms around, Minnesota that's how I got into Acme because it's like They won't book me Louis

Yeah, I think the other thing I mean this has been stated in conversation and probably on shows over and over again, but it can't go unmentioned, the allowance of creative control.

Lewis is an old school purist in the form that so often today, as we've seen, if you look at what's happened in comedy in the last 15, 20 years, you've gone from bro comedy with Dane Cook into nerd comedy, into gender identity, or racial identity comedy, into gender identity comedy.

And I'm not saying those are the only things, but kind of the things that, and now you've gone into kind of woke comedy, and then it's been the battle back against that, which is anti-woke comedy with the Rogan people.

This thing goes like this, and I think the best comics often are not... part of that or reacting to it.

They're whatever they are.

Now maybe they fall in that line somewhere when they're doing what they do and the time just happens to match up with who they are.

Oh,

That time is 7:00 tonight, Zacho.

Yeah, Wild slight favorites.

Uh, they've, uh, you know, had a, an interesting pre-season, obviously an interesting end to the pre-season, and some ways a very frustrating end with the, uh, the loss of Brock Faber for, uh, God knows how long.

But, uh, they've got a great defensive corps.

Uh, it'll be cool to see Spurgeon and Faber...

Or not, uh, Spurgeon and Hughes back, uh, together.

They played briefly last season, and, um, so they'll, that'll...

Hmm.

Would've been a good name for the podcast, but you guys went with Sound the Horn instead.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's, uh, it was an interesting week.

I think it's...

This whole...

You know, Tom tou- uh, touched on it a bit.

Mm-hmm.

I am glad

you are here.

Here's a fun fact about marathon runners.

If you don't know this, it is not uncommon for a marathon runner to poop themselves while running a race.

Really? I can understand if a marathon was like two days.

Like if after 48 hours you have an accident, okay.

Like...

I mean,

(laughs)

... we all used to universally agree that these people over in this category do a thing that we can't conceptualize.

We can't...

Like, you can't even...

Hedberg, like, how, how are you Hedberg? How does your brain work like that? How do you get the...

I personally think Maria Bamford is in the conversation for the greatest comedian in the last 30, 40 years.

I think if you have never seen her, if you never got the chance to see her in a club, the way she works in and out of what she...

Mm-hmm.

Like, w- do you think, is he, is he gonna be like a true actor on SNL? Does he ha- do you know if he's got a, like prepared bits that he's like kind of known for in the improv world and on, and on stage? Like, what do you, how do you expect he's gonna be used based on his personality?

Uh, he's part of this like generation of comics that I am, I, I'm, I'm really appreciative of where they don't take things super seriously, even when they're talking about serious stuff on stage.

They're kind of...

He just has this silly joyish, like he, you see some of his bits, he's got this great bit about discussing politics with his older relatives and he just can quickly freak out.

It's, I don't want to say it's like a Will Ferrell effect, but I...

You never know where a guy's gonna land on the cast, but I, I can see him being able to just be silly and charming and kind of be a little Jason Sudeikis-y, where he could kinda do all sorts of things, you know.

Uh, he, he's doing the, the NBA sketch with Tim Robinson, and then he's playing the straight man over here, and then he's got the dancing sketch.

Go.

What happened?

He's right.

I just want to fight against that.

I'm so tired of that.

I...

Like, the NBA is entering into this new era of, uh, because of the, the shelf and the, the caps and everything, where if you look at all the teams that are succeeding, they are the teams that have been built organically, have prioritized draft picks and have prioritized building their benches.

And that is an opportunity with, like...

I'm like, "It seems like we're hanging in there with these guys." And all of a sudden, the second half, we just imploded, or did they take off?