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our next guest is a comedian who is celebrating the release of his very first comedy album which debuted at number six on iTunes it's called the Blake album Blake Wexler thanks for being here my god thank you for having me thank you so much thank you there's no studio audience so I have to do it it's like a maybe someday we'll get a like audience of robot clappers like I think we've been two men on metal doesn't even sound like a closet just like finding somebody beating pots and pans and other sound weird why admitting the symbols that's where we got a bunch of monkeys with symbols welcome to the show clang clang that makes everyone feel comfortable that sound I like that I suggest that as opposed to just a sound bed of people clapping like that's the simpler answer but no I need a robot studio audience that's exactly what we need you are accustomed to audiences clapping it's the goal yes yeah you have a goal for sure yeah you've been doing a stand-up for a long time I did I started when I was real young I started when I was 15 and yeah I did it through college and I'm still doing it well at 15 what made you say I want to be on stage in front of people potentially heckling me yeah um I didn't know about the heckling hahahahaha don't tell under 15 year old no my job is great comedy specials in every joke is amazing and everybody's laughing and you're like oh george carlin is just getting all these laughs like I want to be a stand-up comedian too meanwhile he bombed all the time not kidding hazing of but yeah I just kept doing it and my mom drove me to shows like when i first started and they weren't good shows like they were in you know terrible dive bars with a bunch of animals from philadelphia at one o'clock in the morning but i guess i'm cool animals yeah yeah yeah that was heading zoo there was a far apart you were drinking and a petting zoo did you what was it what were your guys barn yes yeah well that could be the next hit bar I like at the dive bar I bet you're welcome we gotta haul interested by Barnes yeah the dive bar welcome Jon Taffer hey where you are exotic animals like while you're wasted I pull off and even like pactual well drinks actually yeah like it I'll build it yes don't be what is that I'm not to dwell on your beginnings but what a fifteen-year-old set feel like what are you right about to start with it was really bizarre cuz like I mean the subject matter you only have so much life experience so like it was the SATs like it was a very serious like quite like math class but my delivery of my favorite comedian was Lewis Black and I had this weird angry delivery it's like why is he angry he's a white kid from the suburbs he's 15 he's talking about like tests I like no one cares like but it was very bizarre I think people weren't laughing for the right reasons there is like why is this kid so angry it's more confusing than not funny i think that's what a wine's could never compute right I think that a lot of people who start mm-hmm start by emulating the people that they like and then sort of have that process of finding their own voice right we're not for sure yeah yeah it's interesting to see your brand of comedy sort of now is I like that sort of your your persona on stages that you're just sort of goes by default like kind of annoyed at people like you're just like oh look at these dumb things people are doing yeah it's funny like I don't even think like I'm a very happy person but they're like I'll try to talk about like annoying things in a silly like way we're just like it doesn't I mean none of the things are like huge issues it's like oh I just saw a person who in a very specific way bothered me but doesn't affect anyone else it's very relatable I like that idea that sort of snowball effect where it's like this one tiny thing is annoying man then you can just build it into this really kind of interesting thing that collectively grabs everybody like it's sort of a really good way to sort of like describe what you do like your jokes like how you build them I like the sound of it yeah you represent me thank you know is sending your clients I'm sorry new clients I'm sorry it's someone dropped out I could be possible maybe you fire them why just ready to stop representing Jeff because it's ago mr. first time hearing oh my god aventuras for some things I go weird yes I don't know yeah um so tell us a little bit about me ASAT jokes tonight okay oh my god oh so you took them yeah if somebody's getting use out of them i'm not i get i got to get more out of it so tell us a little bit about creating your first comedy album because this is something that i think a lot of people when they hear a comedy album they don't realize how many years of work can go into crafting a set like a specific hour of comedy right yeah it was um I actually did do a chunk on the album of like old jokes like when I was a kid that I wrote so that was like a fun little like three minute part of it um but yeah it is like years where you just gotta be in the right place for it I think like I mean I think I don't know when I started like recording an album seemed like oh this is the pinnacle of like white like nothing can get better than then it happens in like it's hard to be like like now I'm like oh now I like need to sell it as a special you know what i mean but um it was such a cool like accomplishment where the reason why i did it was almost to add like um have like a benchmark like for my career where like all right so I did this I did this I have an album you know what I mean and then if I make my money back then great you know like the goal was kind of to break even and just have that it's like a sentimental thing and then anything else was a bonus but then ended up selling really well and it came out great like it you know like so many things in this business don't go the way you want it to but then like from getting the right like audio guy to work with and then you know the comedy club selling out with the right people you know like an audience that was there to see me and then um yeah and then like just the way the cuts came together and there was a weird like any curveball was kind of handled where I stayed with cats that weekend like I mean human beings who owned cats but yeah cast of cash y'all stay with it yeah they're always in Causton but they not that what if that was my way of name-dropping I say that's bad I don't know if that's cool but that's odd these are the two leads and that's fine that's no big deal what cross section in your lives I good to you staying with them but I decide my best friends in philly um have cats that I'm like I'm allergic to them but not like you know heart shutdown allergic so I didn't think it was that big of a deal and then when I listened to the first cut of the album you wouldn't be able to hear it as an audience member but because of like the high quality audio equipment you when I would take a deep breath there was like a wheezing noise and I call like Alex Dingley he was the amazing sound mixer I called him I'm like if this stays in here we can't release like this is a horrific noise for Pete like it sounds like laughs laughs laughs funny funny yeah and then like you would hear like a long drawn-out beef he's dying like this was not good this is not your buddy we're worried i feel really worried about it's a papers medical problems probably why he released it oh no it was quite yet I don't like and thank God we were able to get rid of that noise but it's the thing you would never ever think of thanks cats I know thank you so much yeah almost blew it for us blue girl's friend Blake care destroyed my career but uh ya know like it's like seven personal life vendetta against can write the whole every cat I've ever experienced cross that's a parallel universe that's happening right now by the way guys having ruined your career like in some weird parallel alternate universe they have to completely destroyed your life never been dead against me for sure yeah and vice versa I mean you're really out to get them now well now I am yeah yeah I mean I like to be the bigger be she's but almost life of course no never but in that other parallel universe it's time for them to go oh it's over yeah I'm quitting comedy I'm a cat revenger yeah kind of no danger perfect yeah great another one of those did you so did you feel the pressure than value did that album to like put all that material away and have to craft new yeah um I do I mean the pressure is all put on myself you know like I'm the one putting the pressure on because like it's not like I mean people will come to see me but I'm not famous enough where like oh I'm going back to this theater where people paid sixty dollars a ticket we're like you know they'll want their money back ok so like I'm trying like when I do sets now like only maybe ten or fifteen percent old stuff and in the rest brand-new so um and it's also kind of taken a pressure off where it's like you know I've been doing this for a while I've been doing well enough at it for a while to have a career but it's also like oh now there's definitive proof that I'm good at this you know what I mean where it's out there yeah and it's like a tangible thing cassell and you can right right yeah to it like if you can't see me live like you can now buy this wreck right it's like I promised I'm good you know and it's just like okay he's you know good so yeah it's an interesting thing so it's also like kind of freed me up you know like unless there's less anxiety trying out new not just material but like ways of doing stand-up and stuff so it's yeah it's a cool it's been agreed by the ways of doing we're like if I want to like improvise more or like talked about like just throw a character in the middle of it joke you know like or something like that or you know like go out the caddy Kendrick yes the cat revenger is yeah I mean you can write that down that's fine you can have everyone rushes has to sign an NDA not to decide yeah well speaking of NDA's I'd like I'm curious we've we've asked this question of comedians before on the show and writers how do you find workshopping things in a world of technology like where people are able to snapchat your sets as your work shopping things people are able to sort of get that information out there before it's really kind of baked like how do you how do you deal with that or how what's like your response to that does that annoy you is that something that you've learned to work around how is that affected you as a comedian that's a great question i think it's like um I mean when people videotape me there's tues like you know thoughts where I'm like could you please stop doing that would be a thing and then but also like if they put it online like if I'm not good enough to write a better joke after that like if that for some reason like puts a roadblock of my career then I need to be a better writer you know what i mean so it's like okay please don't do that but like also i have a responsibility to be good enough to keep you know writing and coming up with a new things so but yeah there's a cool thing where a Hannibal Burres who's a great comedian he tried out this technology I have no idea how it works but it kills like it doesn't kill your phone but like your phone won't work when you have that guy know what it's called yonder and you put your phone in a little magnetic pouch and it locks when you're in the venue and you can't take your phone out until I want that yeah I think that's really girl for that I'm all for that also like to enjoy an art you know like sure might be present yeah and it really does like I don't know just being present i think it's so underrated it's just like no just enjoy what you're doing right now it's okay yeah like um might need a second screen experience for life yeah yeah sometimes there's time sore but other times like just put it over there like my friend Todd when he has people over you put your phone in the bowl like when you walk you leave it there Owen what evers you get out of the ball they have yeah I like that yeah yeah absolutely just down our account that's basically not anything else you just get to use their uber it's pretty good I like that a lot of person I do like the one where it's like you get together with your friends everybody puts their phone on a stack on the table then whoever touches their phone first pays for dinner I like that too that's a good rule yeah unless you have really you don't friends that you just don't get it you don't get a guarantee they have a rotary phone in the middle just like we know it's it's Chuck so did you get your friend to call somebody else's phone and then it's ringing right there and they have to get a good then you win because you did a subterfuge or like change their like one of the names and their phone of the friends like the name of their child that is Syria now do you sit down and write jokes or do you kind of you know craft them while you're on stage what's your process of making comedy um I'll do both like I like putting in the work of actually writing it out but then kind of bullet point it and then like when I bring it on stage like just almost like improvised the things so like I'll have both the where if in the moment I come up with something funnier it's like okay cool and like I'll record it on my iPhone and then listen back and going right i can plug in that thing that I thought of on stage are there but i also like having like the pre-written thing i'm not as a safety net but it's like you know a foundation sure I guess you know the skeleton of your joke and then you sort of see what happens when you take it off right and I just throw Jenna let's do it oh that's a skeleton plus genitals you teams equals comedy tragedy plus time that's all about that soul this is downtrodden topics general 21st century we gotta spice it up a little bit sure thank you so much oh my god thank you it's our time is already up um the album is called the black album is super easy you guys you find on iTunes right oh yeah in other places other places okay i finalized other places yeah yeah a little challenge for you find my elbow on the internet sounds good and if you can't find it what is your website so that people can go there or your cuz you're the same everywhere on oh yeah yeah it's blake Wexler calm and then app like wetzlar on snapchat Instagram Twitter yeah so follow up follow this man but not in real life because that's weird follow him on the internet get his comedy album enjoy it and laugh and thank you so much my god thanks for havin so much fun Wow we will be right back with a with with what I'm very excited about which is I'm gonna grill you on which one's better viber oculus so tell me yeah so stick around its tomorrow daily