Chapter 1: What is the significance of Brian Moses in the roast battle scene?
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Chapter 2: How did the roast battle league originate?
It's like two dimensional. They're not supposed to respond to us. They're supposed to be on a television or in a comedy club or whatever it happens to be. But this one's got my goat because this one is different. Well, let me put it this way. We've all heard the roasts. We've all seen the roast battles.
Yeah, you know what a roast is.
It's a genre of comedy. You're not that dumb. It's a roast. Like roast battles. And this guy is the puppeteer behind a lot of the roast battles that have made note. I'm not talking about the Comedy Central roasts. I'm talking about the roast battles, like the one with Jeffrey Ross that was on Comedy Central for a while. And now he's got a league.
Brian Moses is a funny comedian slash writer who hosts at the Comedy Store in L.A. every Tuesday night roast battles. And he's been doing it for, I think, 11 years. Yeah. I think I saw something about 11 years today, actually, as we're recording this. 11 years today. So we'll talk to him more about that. But now he's got an international roast battle league.
So there are clubs all around the world that host roast battles. In comedy clubs. In comedy clubs. And then Brian and the commissioner of the roast battle league.
I love that there's a commissioner.
Yes, they will break it down afterwards on their YouTube channel, RBL. So if you go and look up Roast Battle League or RBL, you're going to find their channel. Go ahead and subscribe. They show the roasts, then they break it down. It's kind of like they're doing a little comedy critiquing, right? And I'm so...
kind of excited to dig into this version of comedy because we've talked to a lot of stand-up comedics we've talked to people who do really good stand-up comedy we've talked to writers like Neil Brennan who have been a part of famous shows we have talked to people who do really good crowd work like Hannah Burner or Heather we have had all of it but roast is not the roast battles is not something we've touched on we haven't dipped in there
But now, I know Brian is somehow, and we'll get to this, but intermingled with Kill Tony, which is the extraordinarily popular right now roast battle of all roast battles. Not really a roast battle. If you've seen Kill Tony, you know what it is.
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Chapter 3: What makes roast battles different from traditional comedy?
we can battle each other as dr phil dr phil off a fill off a fill your hole off or something like that yeah but uh we would be a i would be blessed to have ryan who does has no idea who i am decide to do a fill off who knows you never know one day you might meet him Maybe. We'll see how it all rolls out. But I'll say this.
Brian is kind of the puppet master behind a lot of this stuff and lead writer on The Roast Battle. He's the president. Yep. The Roast Battle. Creator. Yeah.
I want to ask how he came up. I mean, how this started.
Well, of course. We need the origin story. It's been going on for 11 years. Maybe it happened on accident, but there's some kind of – everything has a story. We have a story, right? And I'm interested to hear that.
Our story.
Yeah.
We have a story. We fell drunk into each other at the Clear Channel Hallways and said, hey, you want more beer? Who needs this work bullshit? Put it on your protection. No one wants radio spots anyway. Let's go. Uh, so anyway, Brian is the, uh, puppeteer behind a lot of this. And he was also one of the head writers on roast battles with Jeffrey Ross, which aired on comedy central.
If you remember for like three or four years, we'll ask him. And then they had a UK version also, but go to roast battle. We go into YouTube, go type in roast battle league, and then subscribe to that channel. And you'll get updates as every week, uh, The roasters around the world try and one-up each other by giving a good roast battle, and then they get points based on... Let's get it on.
Let's get it on! Roast your roasts! Drop the roast! Drop the roast!
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Chapter 4: How does joke writing play a role in roast battles?
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Brian's here with us now. Brian, grateful for your time this morning. Hey, guys. Hey, congratulations on 11 years of the roast battle out there in L.A. last night with the show. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Glory Hole.
That's us, man. We are, yeah, Roast Battle's a preteen now. I think next year, Drake is going to slide into the Roast Battle's DMs.
Oh, hot take.
Let's roast.
She's going to start wearing those.
Let's roast. Let's get it on. Not for us. For 11 years, you have been doing this. So, Brian, for those of our audience who may not understand what the roast, I mean, everyone's seen a roast, obviously. It's a hugely popular comedy format. And tell us how you got started because you are the man behind the machine in some sense or what I understand.
The Presidente.
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Chapter 5: What are some memorable moments from Brian's roast battles?
Really? He bummed a camel light off me. That's right. Yes, it's a weird story. But anyway, go ahead. So you and Kill Tony are kind of doing back-to-back nights. You lose a night and then you're like, I have to find a different format so I can hang out with my friends.
Yeah, it became a renaissance, really. He just wanted to give... He had this thing, it was basically... It was Hinchcliffe's Notes. That's what the original title was, basically, of Kill Tony. He wanted to just give notes to comics who were aspiring and trying to do their thing. Because he was the king of the open mic. He was the king of the back of the room.
You've got to kill Tony if you want to go forward, especially at the comedy store. And then I didn't even really see Kill Tony too tough because I wasn't really trying to get an open mic scene anymore. I was trying to get out of it or just leave my own open mic.
You're trying to pay your rent? Exactly.
Yeah.
Open mics don't pay anything. Yeah, those are free things. But yeah, so then I started mine. And then, yeah, we had this thing at midnight where two guys who didn't like each other would want to just kind of battle each other. And the origin of that is there was an employee there named Josh Martin and a new comic who was underage, we didn't know, named Kenny Lyon. Oh.
And Kenny was very annoying to Josh. And Josh is very annoying to everybody.
Yeah.
So Josh is drunk one night. He comes in. He's like, hey, that kid on the stage, he's not even 21. He's got to go. And we're like, wait, what? He's been here for like six months. Oh, no. Don't shut me down. Right. And then I was like, and then the kid says, like, well, I turned 21 on Wednesday. He's like, I'm going to come back and beat your ass. And I was like, hold it. Wait till next Tuesday.
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Chapter 6: How does Brian Moses feel about working in television?
Yeah, like Pauly and Peter and Sammy and Sandy. I think, yeah, the kids were running it at that point.
Taking over.
So, yeah, she'd never seen it. But we had met before. She's funny.
Yeah, by all accounts, a wonderful woman who helped a lot of people. Yeah, there was that documentary. Especially in the 80s. Yeah, she was... I mean, I've never met her, but obviously she's... In comedy history, she will go down. Legend. So these two slap box – and then does it just kind of like slowly start to take off?
People are like – So they don't slap box. They don't slap box. Oh, I'm sorry. They roast. Yeah. Because they – well, they just installed cameras. It's a crazy thing. In 2013, there was – yeah, they installed like security cameras finally for the first time. Yeah. And I was like, and that's the only reason that didn't happen.
The only reason that we didn't slapbox and the reason that roast battle exists is because the comedy store a week prior had put cameras up. And I was like, well, I don't want these guys to see me fighting in here. I'm going to get, I'm going to get like banned.
You're like, wait a second. We could get sued. And what happened to all the Coke dealers? Where did they go?
All right. So yeah. So then basically I said, actually, you know what, guys? Don't slapbox. They just put cameras in this thing. How about this? You guys, we're comics. You guys talk shit to each other. Yeah. And then since it's like 50 of us in this room, we'll treat it like a Roman Colosseum. And if it's good, we'll yay. And if it's bad, we'll nay.
Ah.
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Chapter 7: What insights does Brian share about the future of comedy?
So season one, yeah, I think runs from like March 1st to November 1st. It's like the baseball season. It's crazy long.
Yeah, right.
But we get so much content, so we had to make it that long. Sure. And there were so many factions of Rose Battle happening all around the world. Instead of just being like, hey, you can't use it, we're just like, let's just brand it. And if you're good, we'll put you in the league. And if you're shitty, we'll just be like, ah, maybe next year kind of a thing.
So there was eight really good clubs we had seen initially last year. um, or 12 really. And then, so we said, you know what, let's make this a league, like a league of just roast battling. And so they would send their, I know.
Brilliant. Brilliant.
Yeah. It was fun, man. Uh, me and my boy, Pat Barker, he's the, uh, the league commissioner. He's, uh, I call him the LeBron James of roast battling. He's just really good at it. He knows how to break it down. He can, he can run plays and roast battle.
Yeah.
He's got the teleprompter. He's going, look at this guy. Scared shitless. Brain's working overtime. He's really good. I've now watched a number of episodes of RBL. I really enjoy it because you guys literally break down the teams every week and then you're showing clips or sometimes entire battles, like the entire thing.
You're showing it and then kind of breaking it down and saying, well, this is why it's good. This is why it's bad. This is why it's just fucking strange.
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Chapter 8: What can listeners expect from the upcoming roast battle event?
I like the writing element of it. So back in the 20-teens, back in the old days. Back when I was a kid. Back when TV was still a thing. Back before glory holes.
Yeah.
Those will never leave. No, no, no.
They've been in that cat's out of the bag. It's not going back in.
No, we'll have AI glory holes.
Oh, it's coming. Sex, robot, space opera. Next big tentpole movie. I'm calling it.
It's coming. And so am I. What was I saying? No, we were talking about joke writing. Yeah, so really, it's just more about the joke writing for me. So I've done a lot of writing on roasts, right? Like the, I hate to say this, but that Jonas Brothers family roast. I wrote on that. Oh, yeah.
the thing that broke up uh yeah what's his name uh not nick the other one yes yeah joe and sophie yeah yeah those sophie jokes yeah i wrote a lot of those sophie jokes oh they were yeah because she was the only one that wanted anything like remotely hard yeah yeah yeah everybody else kind of wanted to like kind of be safe and nick wanted to write his own jokes but for the most part sophie was like give me the hardest jokes you have i'm trying to break my marriage up oh and then it worked
Obviously. Did she say that? No, she didn't. That was the joke we had in the writers room. It was just like, oh, she doesn't like him. They're not going to be together very long. It was just like me and another guy. It was just the darkest jokes. They were like, nobody's going to take these. And then Sophie was like, what are these? I'll take those.
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