You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.

We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.

Stop laughing.

And when I do, start fucking.

Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.

Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.

You fucking guys are unbelievable.

Why are you laughing?

Evening, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today, I'm pleased to introduce to you, John Mullaney, the top part.

One of my favorite albums of all time.

And I say album specifically, because comedy album is kind of a thing of the past.

Now everyone puts out specials, which is just, you know, there's a lot of talk now.

People saying like a special isn't special anymore because everyone just puts them on YouTube.

There's no gatekeepers for it.

And HBO special is actually probably now less valuable than a YouTube special when you consider

how many eyeballs get on and everything like that. So people say specials are less special now,

but it's really just the natural progression of technology, where back in the day,

whatever one had was an album, just a CD that you put in your car, a tape even further back,

or a record.

You go back to the likes of Bob Newhart.

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