Matteo Lane
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178 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Matteo Lane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, honestly, when I go on stage, even like I'm going to do Radio City, which I'm very nervous about, but please come. Do you know what you're going to wear? I don't know what I'm going to wear, but I feel uncomfortable on stage. I don't like wearing suits ever. I don't ever wear suits. I hate wearing suits. Fuck suits. I know.
I hate wearing suits, but I always just wear t-shirt jeans because I think like... I want to be as comfortable as I can because I want it to feel like we're just hanging out at brunch chit-chatting. So if I'm wearing anything I'm slightly uncomfortable in, I'll only be thinking about that. And so I'm not really like much of a fashion plate in that sense.
But then others like red carpet or whatever, like I go to an event, like dress me however you want.
Yeah. It's about the performance should always be the goal. I think when you're on stage, it should always be about the act. What am I exporting? You know, I've spent a year and a half working on these jokes from working them out of the cellar to on the road and piecing them together. And I don't want anything to get confused because I'm wearing an outfit and
Yeah, he killed it.
immensely to your special because it made you so accessible i kept the background as simple as possible i think a part of me and i shouldn't go here but a part of me also thinks to like and i'm not this is not i'm not victimizing myself in any way shape or form i'm just saying there will be a large majority of people who will tune out immediately because i'm gay I understand that.
I'm not saying it to be like, oh, woe is me. I'm just saying the fact that the sky is blue. I'm not saying everybody... I'm not saying this has been my experience in life. I'm saying this is a large possibility.
And so for me, I just want to... I wanted to be able to have a chance to present my jokes and be taken seriously as a comedian because every interview I do, every show I do, every comic I talk to, it always ends up being like, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay. And I get it. Like, I am.
And I talk about it too, but that's the catch 22 where it's like, I have to talk about it because it's my experience. And then I'm sort of expected to talk, you know, it's, I'm not ashamed of it. I love it. But then sometimes I don't know if I'm being taken seriously or if I'm seeing as serious other comics, this, these are the thought processes that go through my head. We all have those. Sure.
Right. And this is just the corner that I'm in.
Yeah.
And I, I wanted to make sure I kept everything as simple as possible so that we're just focusing on the joke. So if you don't know who I am, you'll just see that I'm just talking about jokes.
And by the way, I just want to preface those listening. This is not me saying that it's not an internalized homophobia that I'm afraid to talk about my sexuality. That is not it. I'm very happy to talk about it. I'm very proud to talk about being gay. I'm talking about the perception of others towards me and the psychological,
mind games you play with yourself when you're trying to also do stand up. I will say to your point, though, you know, I've been asked this question a ton of times. And the reason I always bring up Mario Cantone is because, you know, there's been a lot of famous gay women who I grew up with.
Everyone from Ellen, you know, Judy Gold, to Rosie O'Donnell, to Wanda Sykes, to, you know, Margaret Cho, who's very queer, you know, Schumer. Yeah. Keep going. But, you know, when I was younger, it's not that they weren't there, like Jim David and Rick Crome and Mario Cantone, because there wasn't the accessibility of YouTube and all this stuff.
Those people who were gay men who were performing, I had no access to them. So the first time I ever saw a gay man do stand-up comedy, I was 23. For me, my first access to stand-up to like relate to it, because I never related to it, was Kathy Griffin. Somehow, some way when I was 16, she was speaking stand-up that really resonated with gay men. I mean, really did. Margaret Cho, for sure.
Margaret Cho still has one of my favorite fucking jokes where she talks about her experience on being an all-American girl, the first Asian cast on a sitcom. And so the whole special is about the studio forcing her to lose weight. So she's working out seven days a week. She's doing all these diet drugs, whatever. Her kidneys finally collapsed.
So when she was doing a press conference for her show, this reporter asked her, Ms. Cho, is it true that the network asked you to lose weight to play the part of yourself on your own television sitcom? She goes, the producer grabbed the mic and said, there is no truth in that. I was so hungry. I mean, it's just so funny. That special is so good.
Finally, when I was in the storyboarding class, I was 21 and Joan Rivers had a special on Bravo, ironically called Before Melissa Pulls the Plug. And... And I was like, oh, well, they always said that Kathy Griffin was like a Joan Rivers. So I watched Joan, but that changed my life. That's when I decided to unlock that. I was like, oh, I meant to be a stand up. It was a calling.
I was like, this is it. This is what I was supposed to do. I never seen someone do that. A 71 year old woman in a fur coat walking out. The first thing she says to her audience, she goes, I don't like certain audiences. I hate ugly people. I hate old people. If you're old and ugly, get up and get out right now. Lesbians, move to the back of the room. Gaze to the front.
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