WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1420 - Nick Youssef

Mar 23, 2023

01:27:31

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Nick Youssef

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The Pandemic - A New Special

02:44

The Air Conditioning Is a Good Thing

02:53

The Comedy Store Is Fascinating

02:07

Introduction

3min

You Dig, Man, a Groove Is Deeper Than a Rut

2min

You're Not Utilizing All of Your Time

1min

What I've Learned From Nan Golden's Documentary Style Photographs

3min

Take the Audience Survey

3min

Are You Living in Your Car?

3min

Are You Dead?

2min

How Did Your Parents Run Away From You?

2min

Are You a Muslim?

2min

10.

Is Stand Up Really Your Origin Story?

3min

11.

You Can't Give a Girl Flowers

2min

12.

Is Your Brother Still Doing the Marble Business?

3min

13.

What Are You Doing in Lebanon?

4min

14.

The Air Conditioning Is a Good Thing

3min

15.

Are You Able to Get Traction in Seventh Grade?

2min

16.

Is This Something You're Looking at in Retrospect?

3min

17.

I Want a Mohawk. Yeah.

3min

18.

The Best I Ever Had Was When I Was Thirteen

2min

19.

How Does Comedy Fit In?

2min

20.

What Do You Have Comics You Like?

2min

21.

Is That Your First Time on Stage?

2min

22.

I Didn't Do It Again Until I Turned 18

2min

23.

How Did You Reconsider Going Back to Lebanon?

2min

24.

The Open Mic of Love

2min

25.

The Comedy Store Is Fascinating

2min

26.

The Backside of My First Album Open Mics

2min

27.

Is That a Good Sign That She Didn't Have an Opinion?

2min

28.

I Don't Want to Be Afraid Anymore

2min

29.

You Know I'm a Paid Regular Now and I Just Like Screamed Into the Night and I Was Like 'I'm a Payed Regular'

3min

30.

The First Ride on the Beach

1min

31.

Mitzi Saw You at Midnight

2min

32.

When Does the Porn Actress Come In?

3min

33.

You Were Not a Sweater and Your Hair Is Long

2min

34.

How Long Have You Been in Brooklyn?

2min

35.

New York Comedy Club

1min

36.

The Pandemic - A New Special

3min

37.

WrestleMania Live April 1st and 2nd

3min

38.

The Fonda Cat Angels Everywhere

6min

Nick Youssef found himself on the receiving end of anti-Arab hate when he took the standup stage shortly after 9/11, right at the start of his comedy career. It was that moment when Nick knew he was never going to let anyone get the better of him on the comedy stage ever again. Marc talks with Nick about how the shy son of Lebanese immigrants became a battle-hardened comic who just produced and released his first comedy special.

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