None Too Pleased<\/u><\/a>,\u201d premiering Tuesday on Netflix. Filmed at the Boulder Theater in Colorado, it touches on marriage and fatherhood, and not<\/i> in a family friendly way. The comedian talked about his willingness to chase a joke wherever it goes, his new special and more. <\/p>\n Not to contradict the title of your special, but <\/b>I screened \u201cNone Too Pleased,\u201d and it\u2019s super pleasing and so<\/i> funny.<\/b><\/p>\n
Wow, that means a lot. I appreciate you watching. Nobody wants to watch anything now. I\u2019m really excited. The special is a joke every, I don\u2019t know, 15 to 20 seconds. So if you hate a joke, just remember there\u2019s one right after it. And it\u2019s all jokes and a lot of it isn\u2019t even real so if you get too upset, just realize half of this stuff is just made up for the sake of humor. Just try to enjoy it and don\u2019t yell at me.<\/p>\n
Yeah, in 2026 you have to put a disclaimer on it. \u201cNone Too Pleased: I\u2019m kidding!\u201d<\/b> I\u2019m always trying to find a correlation, and I\u2019m wondering if your special comes out on St. Patrick\u2019s Day because it\u2019s such a huge thing in New Orleans?<\/b><\/p>\n
Oh my God, I wish we put that much thought into it but no, we\u2019re idiots. That was just the date they gave me, and I\u2019m too scared to push back because everybody wants to be on Netflix. I actually recorded my last special on St. Patty\u2019s Day in Chicago and that was a huge mistake. It\u2019s like this weird curse now.<\/p>\n
No way, it\u2019s your date now! I was reading about how New Orleans gets down at the St. Pat\u2019s parade and did you know they throw onions and cabbage at people?<\/b><\/p>\n
Oh yeah, I\u2019ve gone to the parade at the Irish Channel and it\u2019s pretty wild. As you know, they are the drunkest<\/i> people, so it gets crazy. But New Orleans throws down for Cinco de Mayo, Mother\u2019s Day, Ramadan \u2026 I mean, we\u2019ll get drunk for any reason.<\/p>\n\n
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\u201cThe special is a joke every, I don\u2019t know, 15 to 20 seconds. So if you hate a joke, just remember there\u2019s one right after it,\u201d says Mark Normand about his new show.<\/p>\n
(Matthew Salacuse)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n
I might have heard that. At the very beginning of your special, a tape goes into a VCR<\/b> and it\u2019s called \u201cBest of Gay Porn.\u201d Were there any other working titles for that VHS tape?<\/b><\/p>\n
No, my dumb friend edited it and put that in himself as a little Easter egg. He thought it\u2019d be funny, so I had nothing to do with that. I was a big skateboarder in my youth, and I told him I wanted a tape in the VCR like an old skate video. So that\u2019s what he did. Thanks for catching it!<\/p>\n
It was the first laugh before we even got into the special so shout-out to your dumb friend! Something else I caught, you love to throw a fist in the air. Is it a tribute to Rocky?<\/b><\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know where I got it from, there\u2019s really no story behind it. I just get so pumped up to do comedy! I\u2019m so excited that just the thought of it makes my fist go in the air out of sheer fun, excitement and gratitude. It just goes up there, like a boner, I can\u2019t control it.<\/p>\n
Something resonated with me in your special, no spoilers, but I learned to swim the same way. Is that a white person thing?<\/b><\/p>\n
I mean, it\u2019s gotta be. I think it\u2019s the white person version of letting your baby bird jump out of the nest. I grew up in a Black neighborhood and there was a lot of \u201cI can\u2019t swim, I can\u2019t swim\u201d from all of the other kids, so I assumed it was a white guy thing. I gotta tell you, I\u2019m still doing that joke, and it\u2019s gotten so much better and so much longer that it kills<\/i> me that I taped it already. But I thought of a million other annoying things white people do. Those are the best too, when you watch something and you go, hey! It\u2019s not just me! That\u2019s the most relatable fun stuff.<\/p>\n\n
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Along with his new special and touring, Mark Normand also co-hosts podcasts and co-founded a whiskey brand.<\/p>\n
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Fully agree! Sometimes when comics become parents, their material goes straight to<\/b> \u201ckids say the funniest things,\u201d but yours feels still pretty horned up and not overly kid-heavy.<\/b><\/p>\n
Listen, that\u2019s news to me! No, I was conscious of that. I didn\u2019t want to be the aww shucks dad, \u201ckids are so crazy\u201d comic, so I appreciate you noticing that. I don\u2019t know about the charged-up part though, maybe my kid turns me on? I have no idea. I don\u2019t want to be put on a list! You know, Louis CK is the best with that. He has a ton of kids stuff, but it\u2019s still, you know, throwing your kids in the dumpster and all of that, so that was kind of my North Star.<\/p>\n
You have so many things going on, wife and kid, touring, Bodega Cat Whiskey, podcasts, a new special \u2014 how are you<\/i> managing?<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u2019m a weirdo and I like to work. I used to be a janitor, and I used to move furniture, so podcasting and stand-up is not so bad when you talk about having a job. It is a lot, and I have no free time, but I don\u2019t mind it. I hang out with my two friends, and we do a pod together each, so that\u2019s how we get to hang out now. We monetize it, so that\u2019s something! And then the stand-up, I just actually love doing it. Love of the game! If I wasn\u2019t doing it, like during COVID, I wanted to put a gun in my mouth. I felt like I had no self-worth, and I just started drinking every day and doing drugs. Comedy gives me some meaning, which is kind of sad, but that\u2019s how I\u2019m wired. If I have nothing to work towards, I will just collapse in on myself.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m glad you have comedy! Good God, that got dark. Now that you\u2019re pretty seasoned, what\u2019s standing out with the newer comics coming up?<\/b><\/p>\n
Well, I get a lot of it. Like, I think comics are chasing going viral. I get it though, everybody wants the followers, everybody wants the views, but they\u2019re not really chasing good jokes or quality comedy. I would say that\u2019s a big thing, but it\u2019s not even young comics\u2019 fault because you hear these clubs say stuff like, \u201cWe need a comic with a lot of followers, or we won\u2019t book you.\u201d So they\u2019re scrambling to get followers. But I\u2019m old fashioned, and young comics are going to probably make fun of me, but I think the cream tends to rise. So if you\u2019re killing, you\u2019re writing good stuff, and you\u2019re getting up, the right people will notice you eventually. I think the old guard, like Louis CK and Seinfeld, these guys are all very against the internet. They\u2019re like, oh, get off the internet, and I\u2019m saying no! Clips sell tickets! Both extremes, the young and the old. I think we just need a little bit of readjusting towards the middle.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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