Elephant In The Room

Why Are You Laughing?

Blind Mike Project

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

5 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Nearing another anniversary marking the death of Patrice O'Neal, Mike and Craig go over one of the greatest specials ever. "Elephant In The Room."

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0:00.0	You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.
0:01.7	We got so dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.
0:05.0	Stop laughing.
0:09.0	And when I do, start fucking.
0:12.0	Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.
0:15.0	Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.
0:19.0	You fucking guys are unbelievable.
0:22.9	Why are you laughing?
0:24.8	E evening, everybody.
0:25.7	Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.
0:28.9	And today I'm pleased to introduce to you, Patrice O'Neill's elephant in the room.
0:33.6	One of the, I would put in the top 10 specials of the 2000s for sure.
0:39.7	I would say it's inarguable, but so many specials come out now that it's probably difficult to make that list.
0:45.0	But Patrice O'Neill's one special, and it came out the year that he died every year.
0:51.7	And by every year, I mean the one year we've been doing this,
0:55.2	I figure right around now is when we should do a Patrice O'Neill episode
0:59.2	because he passed away on November 29th, 2011,
1:04.7	and he also invented a holiday around this time, which we'll get to.
1:08.6	So it's our yearly acknowledgement of
1:12.6	the man who
1:14.3	what's the word I'm looking for.
1:17.7	The title of this podcast is an honor of something he said,
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