We Might Be Drunk
Anthony Jeselnik w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand - We Might Be Drunk Podcast
08 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Yeah, well, we're staying at the Ondas, so you keep doing that thing where you're like, ah, the coattail's right there. Stay another hour. And another hour. And then here we are. Yeah, I used to drink.
I get it.
Wait, you quit?
Yeah.
What? I never thought I'd see the day. We're losing everybody.
I feel like no one drinks anymore. You guys are the last two people standing. Even Swartzen's not drinking anymore.
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Chapter 2: Why did Anthony Jeselnik quit drinking?
Well, he had to quit. Yeah. And Burt quit.
Burt quit. No one saw that coming. We were in a bar last night where Swartzen met me, and he rolled him with a green juice. And I was like, I never thought I'd see the day. I was happy to see it. And he had wings. He wasn't eating wings. I was like, all right.
Well, he'll be like, Nick will be like, I'm sober now. I've been sober for two years. I'm like, when's the last time you had a drink? He's like, a year ago. I'm like, well, that's not. I get it.
Damn, Swartzen. That's like when Jordan went to basketball or baseball. It's over. He came back, though, so I hope not.
That's true. He'll be back.
He'll be back. Don't say that.
It's Nick. That's fucking bad, though. You don't want to root for people to fall back on who have a problem.
Well, maybe he'll come back and own it. Like he'll just have a beer at dinner. I don't think that's how it works.
Okay.
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Chapter 3: How does Anthony Jeselnik approach his writing process?
Don't listen to the audience. And I would keep trying it and would keep bombing. And I would see Zach and he'd be like, how's that joke going? And I'm like, you would not believe how badly it's going. And now I just do a thing where I'm like, I don't care anymore. Like I've been doing this for almost 25 years. Like this is what I like. I'm just going to tell it to you.
You don't have to like it, but I love this joke. And then that kind of sells it a little bit, but I have to literally set it up as like, this is a joke that horrifies people, but it is the funniest thing I've ever thought of in my life.
Once you say that, they're kind of like, all right, all right. It really changes the whole dynamic of the joke.
You're trying to make them feel cool by liking it.
Like Jimmy Carr told me, like I had a bunch of jokes. It was like an early special. I think it may have been Caligula, like my Comedy Central special. And I was like, I've got these jokes that are like almost too, it gets darker. Where like the darker stuff, I don't know where to put it in. It's like, it should go at the end. And he was like, do what I do. And he just gave it to me.
He was like, do what I do and just say, let's see how dark I can get. I'm gonna tell jokes that get progressively darker and we'll see. And then they love every one of them and it's an easy thing to do. And I was like, oh, I can have that. And he's like, take it. It's yours.
It's just the packaging of it.
It's how you present it.
That's smart. Because if you come out with a dark one, they're just like, Jesus.
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges of performing stand-up comedy?
And it bombed. And the crew starts laughing. And they're like, I've never seen someone so happy to have a joke bomb. Like, I was thrilled because if it worked, I would have had to keep it. But I was like, no, your reference didn't work. So I was very happy. So it's funny because it tells us Stan hopes the best, too. That's his favorite. I think he absolutely is.
Just like the stories he tells, the jokes he has. I think he like, because every comic's like, I don't give a fuck. They all like to say that. Yeah. But very few like really follow through.
Very few go to Ukraine and fire weapons into Russia. Yes.
He actually gives no fucks. And then he'll move to Bisbee and just like does what he wants to do. And everything he does is for comedy.
Yes.
That Bobby Barnett bit, dude.
The one on Someone to Take the Edge Off, that closer, that story. Yeah, he can do social commentary. He can tell a funny personal story. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's one of the best of all time, I think, for sure.
I mean, truly the greatest, I think.
Yeah.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of touring as a comedian?
And they've made like eight different versions of Point Blank. Like the Mel Gibson payback.
Point Blank's the best one though, I think.
It was great. It was great. But it just, again, I just was like, I'd rather be reading the book right now.
The book series is awesome. It's the Parker series. That's a good rec too if you haven't seen that. But yeah, that's kind of like a forgotten cool.
I found a first edition copy of, I forget, I don't know if it's called Playland. It's a Westlake Parker book, but it takes place in an amusement park Where, like, mobsters chase him into an amusement park, and it's basically Die Hard, like, 30 years before Die Hard came out. Where he's in an amusement park, like, killing all these guys with the rides and shit. It's awesome.
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Chapter 6: How does Anthony Jeselnik approach writing and performing new material?
It's awesome. Those books are funny, too. That's the thing, too, is, like, they're just blunt and funny and, yeah, awesome. Awesome series. Yeah. I don't know. Point Blank is a movie? Yeah, Leave Marvin. Oh, okay. It shot really cool, too. It has a weird vibe. I think it's the late 60s or something.
I don't know when it was done. Late 60s. The Dean from Animal House is one of the villains.
Chapter 7: What insights does Anthony share about the evolution of comedy specials?
Oh, yeah. Dean Wormer. It's great. All right. I'll check that out. Yeah.
Dean Martin. Huh? Oh, Animal House. No, Dean Warmer. I was thinking of Ned Beatty. Never mind, yeah. Ned Beatty, Deliverance. Yeah. Tough role.
Chapter 8: How does Anthony Jeselnik view the impact of social media on comedy?
Tough role, especially to be recognized for. Good for him. Yeah. Someone had to do that role. That's a tough one to be recognized for.
I was so bad for him. You heard the story that the director was like, did you ever get bullied when you were a kid? And he was like, yeah, they would tell me to squeal like a pig. They'd call me fat. And then he had the actor say that to him without telling him anything. What? Where he's having a fucking breakdown. They got the performance, but it was... That's a great actor. Yeah.
To let that in.
Yeah. He's a hit man in another movie. He's a hit man in, I think, Mikey and Nikki. Ned Beatty? Yeah. Wow. Good flick, too. Not a very intimidating guy. That's a 70s flick. That's a cool one. I got a movie rec. Please.
Anatomy of a murder Jimmy Stewart entire score by Duke Ellington really cool It's a it's like if you like the like courtroom drama type great dialogue like is that a Hitchcock movie No, it's Otto Preminger But it's awesome dude. It's an awesome. Never heard of that. Yeah, very cool. Yeah, that's an old That's a cool one Peter Falk and Cassavetes Elaine May directed it.
Whoa Slow as fuck first 25 minutes. You got to get through but then it's awesome. Okay But uh, all right So you've toured with Rock. I think we were talking once when I was out here, you were saying that you don't go out till you have 45 minutes on the road.
On my last tour, because it was like my 20-year anniversary, my agent was just like, just go, pick six clubs and go. And I had 30 minutes. So I had to fill 15 pretty quickly. At first it was like, let me do jokes, my favorite jokes, my old specials. Hated that. Like it just felt like, it felt hard to do. And I was like taking questions.
And a lot of my last hour came from that, where people would be like, talk about Norm. You know, so I've got a Norm story. Talk about the roast. I had my like Tyson story, like jokes that would get cut. And now I'm taking questions and it's all bullshit. Like none of it's gonna make it into my act that I don't know what, maybe I just used up all the things people were interested in.
But now I had like, I went out with 45 minutes to clubs and now building it for, I'm doing clubs until, I just went out a few months ago until September and then going into theaters. But I've got like 50, 55 and hopefully I'll have the hour by then.
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