Episode Transcript
Hi there, I'm Bratt. This week it's comedian Josh Blue.
He's fantastic. He's celebrating twenty years as a headliner at
Denver's Comedy Works Iconic. Uh.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I was just a delight.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I wish we would have taped the little speech you
gave it our wedding.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh yeah, that was good.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Ago, thanks for the heat stroke, by the way, that
was nice. Nice You picked the hottest day of the
year to get married. No, it was a wonderful, beautiful,
beautiful thing. Congrats again, my friend.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Thanks buddy, thank you for the gift. I want to
get you a nothing. No, I didn't want anything. No,
that's not true. You gave a little speech at our wedding.
Speech your significant other did my bride's hair. Oh yeah
she did there.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, best best.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Gifts anyway, Comedy Works Saturday night. Twenty years When are
you appearing at comedy.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Work headlining comedy It's insane.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It is because you're still you were twelve.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
A early blossomer, like you said, really wonderful.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It's pretty cool, man, I'm excited. How crazy is that?
Twenty years? Man?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
How have you changed as a comedian? Because you have
to change. You have to evolve to continue to thrive.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, I mean I definitely feel like I'm the best
comic I've ever been, like just grown. You know, my
understanding of timing and silence, and you know word smith
and you know, just picking different words. And obviously as
you get older, you know, you see the world a
(01:37):
little different, right, I mean, the more grizzled.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I wouldn't exactly call it grizzled, but you do bring
when I see you perform, and I see you perform
once or twice a year, you have a special energy. Now,
I mean you always had a great energy, but it
seems to be a more focused, for lack of a
better word, intellectual energy. I know you don't want to
scare away your fans.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, they don't like things too smart.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
That's not true. Your fans are actually very right. Yeah,
And you have the most dedicated army of fans of
any performer I know all over the world.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Man, everywhere it goes the same audience of people that
are just there to laugh and have fun and eat
and drink, and yeah, it's it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Do you mean they're like deadheads? They travel from town
to town.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I have had a few people that have done that.
For sure.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
There was a couple Cindian Big Jair and they would
show up and they've seen me in eight nine cities.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Yeah, well, you have something special about you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And it's not just the palsy.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It's funny you should say that, because when i'm I
don't think about that.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I mean, and I.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Don't think about your disabilities either. You've really overcome so
much and it's great.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah, I'm not going to talk to you in that time.
What I'm saying is when you become friends with somebody,
when you know somebody but you don't see it, I
don't think of that. Yeah, No, I think of this
lunatic who who throws axes and makes art and makes music,
and who succeeds at everything that he tries.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, I wouldn't say all that I do try try
to succeed. No, it's been you know, twenty years of
just being a stand up as a just for anybody
to last that long in this business is hard. You know,
it's a pretty cutthroat business. You know, it's hard to
stay on top and stay relevant. And I just feel
so fortunate that I'm able to do that, And I
(03:30):
think it's because my comedy is a lot just about
me and my day to day life, and I keep
living and things keep happening, and obviously the world evolves
and you got to evolve with it or you're no
longer relevant.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
You just mentioned that comedy is a cutthroat business. Who's
the biggest scumbag you've ever worked with? Oh? Oh, mass Ropschneider,
isn't it?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That's hilarious? How'd you know that?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't expect you to answer that question.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, I can't say it, but you're right.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Have you Have you ever worked with someone without naming
any names, who was prone to difficulties and meltdowns.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
And that sort of thing? Oh? Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I don't really understand that, Like I I do. It's
I hear horror stories from comedy clubs, like just like,
we're so happy you were here because last week so
and so is here. There's such a diva and such
a And I'm like, I don't understand being a diva
as a comedian, you know, I mean, we're just like
(04:30):
court gestures, you know, like we don't I don't, you know,
I mean, it just doesn't make sense because it's all
about having fun and being I think easy, and but
when people bring drama into it that it doesn't it's contradictory.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I think America seems to be going nuts, and it
has been progressively going nuts for a while. Uh yeah,
and people like you were around to just be there
to help out. You are a bright light of sanity.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I wish I could to do more.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
This is beyond what I didn't need responsibility on you.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
No, but I do wish there was some sort of solution.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
This is not twenty years of comedy works, and you'll
be a comedy work South Greenwood Village the Big Room
for two shows Saturday at six and eight thirty pm.
And I understand that you have completed your memoir.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
It's finally done. It took about as long as I've
been headlining. Yeah, it's taken me forever, just because I
don't physically write or type, so I have to dictate
to someone. And I've gone through like five different scribes,
and then each person, as much as it is my story,
each person has some influence on how you write it.
(05:47):
So then I had to go back through and kind
of iron out everything and make sure it's all on
the same voy. It just took forever. So just buy
my damn book.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Please.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
What's the name of the book? It should be by
my damn book.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah. Something to stare at? That's really yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yeah, I knew, not even someone to stare at. Something
to stare at U. Yeah, in itself, that's brilliant.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Well, thanks man, it's a good I'm really happy with it. Again,
it took forever, and uh uh, you know, just the
fact that I stuck to it this long means that
I had something to say, you know, And it only
goes up to the last comic standing the memoir.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
So there will be a part two.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
There's a part two. You can't wait. Just another thirty
years and it'll be out.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Am I in part two?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh? Yeah, for sure?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Speaking of twenty years of comedy works performances, where will
you be twenty years from today.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I'll be sitting here with you.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I can think of worse fates.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
No, for sure, I would be honored.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Well, if you're here twenty years, that means you on
the air for a long time, because you've already been
on the air for a long If.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I'm here for twenty years, I'll be pushing a half
a century a kbco.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Wow, you've earned it, You've earned it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I don't know that's gonna happen. I guess it could.
You never know.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Oh, I know it ain't happening.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Josh Blue Comedy Work, Saturday Night, two shows. This guy
is a local leg not a local what am I saying?
Local legend? This guy's an international phenomenon.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Oh shows.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Thank you, you're the best man. Thanks shows having me
on and supporting this whatever this.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Is, whatever this is. I'm Brett Sonders. I'm really glad
you listen. I'll see you next time. It's the Brett
Sonders Podcast.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Bye.
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