In 2024 Jimmy made a second appearance on the You Made It Weird podcast, hosted by US comedian Pete Holmes. I assume it was recorded March 18th as Jimmy mentioned doing 2 gigs in Sacramento the night before (which were on the 17th).
I love this one – but just a TEENY complaint: Pete – put some shoes on!!! I’ve seen a few podcasts, usually by US comics, doing it just in their socks and twitching / waving their feet around on camera. Quit it!
In the 100 minutes they manage to mention all of the below (a lot of story swapping going on and some of the below are only mentioned in passing):
- Religion / loss of faith
- New York stand-up scene
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Don Rickles / Jeff Ross
- Reverse engineering jokes
- Goosebumps
- Bob Saget
- Ayn Rand
- Conflation of happiness and pleasure
- Ron White
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Natural Born Killer
- Irish passport
- John Mulaney
- Porn & video games being proxies for a sex life / career
- Jimmy’s posh persona
- Cancel culture – does it exist?
- Louis CK
- X is not the same as the news media or the general public
- Bill Burr
- Robbie Williams
- Cognitive dissonance
- Overton window
- Sebastian Maniscalco
- Marc Maron
- Jimmy touring in America
- Shane Gillis
- Joseph Heller and Kur Vonnegut
- Rupert Spira
- Eric Weinstein / Physics
- Grief
- Mark Twain
- Ricky Gervais
- Depeche Mode
- JK Rowling
- Ambition v Entitlement
- Neal Brennan
- Therapy
- Tony Robins
- CBT / NLP
- Byron Katie
- AI
- Elon Musk / Mars
- 3 humiliations of man – Copernicus, Darwin, Freud
- Gratitude
Book recommendations
- Pete Holmes – Comedy Sex God
- Annie Grace – This Naked Mind – Control Alcohol
- John Sarno – Healing Back Pain
- Iain McGilchrist – The Master and His Emissary – The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
- David Deutsch – The Beginning of Infinity – Explanations that Transform the World
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