Sep 24, 2026 · 37 min · 11 segments
Happy Big 12 Opening Week Matt drops another solo episode detailing his few frustrations with the Macklemore - Ed Sheeran tour, Nikole Hannah- Jones, Anonymous standup comedy critics, And a few…
Matt LewisHost
He has a 30-minute comedy show on Sunday nights, and he is a very good performer, but I didn't realize how much of it was audience-based and how much of it was ramped up applause and that kind of thing until COVID.
What I saw him doing is his 25-minute rants about coal mining being unsafe or something like that to nobody during COVID when it was an empty crowd.
I was just like, oh, it really is more of a stage show because I always thought of it as a...
It took me so long to realize television, especially on a sitcom, on a soundstage, duh, is a play that you're watching with the multi-cam thing.
I looked at it like that until I went to a live taping and I go, oh, this is just like doing theater.
And I think we saw that a lot with a lot of the late night guys, especially with Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, I guess.
He has a 30-minute comedy show on Sunday nights, and he is a very good performer, but I didn't realize how much of it was audience-based and how much of it was ramped up applause and that kind of thing until COVID.
What I saw him doing is his 25-minute rants about coal mining being unsafe or something like that to nobody during COVID when it was an empty crowd.
I was just like, oh, it really is more of a stage show because I always thought of it as a...
It took me so long to realize television, especially on a sitcom, on a soundstage, duh, is a play that you're watching with the multi-cam thing.
I looked at it like that until I went to a live taping and I go, oh, this is just like doing theater.
And I think we saw that a lot with a lot of the late night guys, especially with Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, I guess.
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