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Booker for a hooker with a chimp

The Lou Perez Podcast with Mouth Congress: Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini

Lou Perez

Dec 18, 2024

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Meet your heroes. Become friends with your heroes. Have your heroes on your podcast.

With Christmas just days away, this episode of The Lou Perez Podcast with Scott Thompson and Paul Bellini of The Kids in the Hall and Mouth Congress was my gift-to-self.

Unwrap this present to hear about the roots of The Kids, Scott’s bout with censorship at Amazon, and Mouth Congress’s new album, Valley of Song, which includes the tracks “Honk,” written in solidarity with the Canadian trucker convoy protests, as well as the ballad, “Booker,” about a guy who figures out how to make a really good living off of a lazy prostitute.

Paul and Scott continue to create beautifully insane comedy. Whether it’s their new punk album or Scott’s one-man show with Buddy Cole. (After my wife and I caught King in NYC, we met up with Scott. To this day he doesn’t know what my wife’s voice normally sounds like, because Buddy had her laughing so hard that she lost it.)

Join me this week at the first annual Williams Center Comedy Festival in Rutherford, NJ.

Below are some of my favorite sketches from The Kids in the Hall.

If you’re still looking for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa presents, here are some ideas on wares and reads.

Use promo code LOU20 for 20% off purchases.

*That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore* is a Christmas movie.

And if anyone knows what the drones I see flying above my house are doing, please let me know.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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The Lou Perez Podcast

Lou Perez is the author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY.

Lou was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During his tenure at WTI, Lou made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal. Check out his article “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.”

In addition to producing sketch comedy like Comedy Is Murder with Free the People, stand-up, and opinion writing, Lou is on the advisory board of Heresy Press and host the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast.

You may have seen Lou on Gutfeld! and Open to Debate.

Lou began doing improv and sketch comedy while an undergrad at New York University, where he was part of the comedy group the Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz.

For years, Lou performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and his comedy duo, Greg and Lou. G&L are probably best known for their sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views across online platforms.

Lou was a writer for Fox Sports' @TheBuzzer; produced The Attendants with the Above Average Network; produced pilots for FOX Digital and MSN Games; and was a comedy producer on TruTV's Impractical Jokers.

Lou hosted the stand-up show Uncle Lou's Safe Place in Los Angeles, performed at the Big Pine Comedy Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, and co-created the political comedy podcast Unsafe Space.

Lou taught creative writing at the City College of New York, "writing the web series" for Writing Pad, and comedy writing workshops for the Moving Picture Institute.

Lou needed a way to get all the people he's always wanted to talk to to talk to him. So, he made a podcast. The Lou Perez Podcast. Join Lou on his journey through politics and culture.

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