Ben Schwartz
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260 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Ben Schwartz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, we were. Whoa. We did everything. We did everything. It was awesome. That movie cost $1 million to make. So we would like change in the car or change in like the restaurant we were going to film in. It was crazy. I can't believe you said yesterday. It was amazing. Yeah, it was a good movie and it was like, you know, I was a stand up in that.
Yes. And my character is supposed to be bad at the beginning and then better. And so we use tweets of mine at the beginning that were cheesy and then slowly like started to write better. Yeah, yeah. Like shitty tweets by me and then Neil Brennan tweets by the end. Yeah. But that was fun. It was also funny to go do, you know, stand up and like do it over and over. It's so different than...
I started doing standup when I first started comedy. Nice. And it wasn't, I couldn't, I did improv at the same time and I was so drawn to improv because when you suck, you fail with everybody. And then when you succeed, you succeed with everybody.
And at the beginning, you guys, you guys know way more about this than me, but it's like, I feel like it's so lonely at the beginning of standup because you don't really know anybody. Everybody has five minutes. You have to bring people to your shows. Yeah. It's like, so you have to love it. You would have to love it to keep going. And I loved improv and sketch. And I like stand up.
I was like, I'm not good enough to get on stage. I got to the point where they said, you don't have to bring people. I was like, oh, this is exciting. And I just bombed. In front of friends. In front of no friends. The one with like, you don't have to bring people anymore. Just come and do a set.
I know. It's like your first show. But that's how they make money. The only way they make money.
Oh, nice.
That was Ben Schwartz and Friends or Middle Ditch and Schwartz? I think it was you two together. Oh, yeah, yeah. Probably.
No. I go on stage with nothing. Wow. Literally zero. You two are insane. Oh, thanks, dude.
It'd be so funny if you've never seen us. I've seen it. I've seen it. Never seen it, but it's sound. No, Middleditch. This is the way I've heard about it. I watched Coming Up. He was always great at the UCB Theater. Yeah. That's where we started doing stuff at UCB in New York. And then at the same time, do you guys know Adam Pally and Gil Azaridon? Yeah, yeah.
So me, Pally, and Gil had a three-person sketch team called Hot Sauce. And then Montreal Comedy Festival first introduced sketch. And we were able to do like that first batch where like Bob and Dave or Bob Odenkirk and David Cross were hosting it. So it was like the biggest thing in the world. Yeah. Because we could not get into Aspen for some reason.
All these festivals, I don't even know if they exist anymore. Nassman's gone. Montreal's kind of gone.
It's wild. It was such an exciting thing. That was like the landmark.
Oh yeah, I didn't get anything. It's like all you get. I was so excited though. I remember being so excited, but you're right, nothing happened afterwards.
I'm out of here.
Remember getting new faces? What did you guys call it for improv? That was it for... Well, improv doesn't exist. Improv, also the touring that I'm doing now for improv doesn't exist. It's the first time we're playing like... The venues that I play are bigger than any improv tour kind that's ever happened. So we're like trying to show that...
That's exactly what I say. Oh, I'm talking about magic in general. Just the idea of like when you pull it off. But it's the same with you guys when you have a great stand-up set and everything's going.
No, because you can point to a thousand movies. You can point to a thousand specials. You can even point, like you can point to Pryor or Steve Martin. You have different versions of stand-up. And in improv, before Mildred Schwartz, there was only like one
real special out there and then there's a documentary on a team called tj and dave who are great but it was a doc kind of and the other one was like ass cat which was a ucb show but it was on bravo and it was shot different so it wasn't really what they do so like we never had something we could point to like a kevin hart special or whose line i know that's super mainstream but that's short form i do that totally different so that's like uh it's like quick little jokes as opposed to like um so you're like building something you're
Yeah, like we do. So if you ever watch a special, it's an hour, an hour and a half, like almost a play. We do an entire hour. We talk to an audience member for 10, 15 minutes. For Ben Schwartz and friends, what I did this year was I asked the audience, tell me about the most exciting day or night of your life. And people raise their hands. And we pick someone that doesn't seem fucking bananas.
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