• #1 written by Steve
    about 11 years ago

    Thank you for putting these up, Joel. As a fan of the show who has no chance in hell of ever being within 500 miles of Detroit, I always wondered what it was like to be in the audience as you perform.

    I find Joel the podcaster funnier than emcee Joel but I can see how the demands and dynamics of the situations are different. I don’t think Assholes of the Year could translate into a 5 minute bit on stage and the podcast would sound odd if it were a series of jokes. It was interesting when you talked about the comic who had an audience that knew all his jokes from his podcast because I was wondering if his episodes were him just reciting his routines. That would be weird to listen to but I guess it works.