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The Lou Perez PodcastAuthor: Lou Perez
Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and author of That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore. You may have seen him on FOX's Gutfeld! and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the head writer and producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV and produces Comedy Is Murder, a sketch comedy series with Free the People. Lou is a FAIR-in-the Arts fellow, on the advisory board of Heresy Press, and hosts the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast. During my tenure at We the Internet, I made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: "How I Became a 'Far-Right Radical." How'd I start out? I began doing improv and sketch comedy while an undergrad at New York University, where I was part of the comedy group the Wicked Wicked Hammerkatz. For years, I performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and my comedy duo, Greg and Lou. G&L are probably best known for our sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views across online platforms. I 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. I 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. I've opened for Jimmy Dore, Rich Vos, Dave Smith, and Rob Schneider. I'm currently on tour with Scott Thompson. I 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. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Maud Maron: Nikole Hannah-Jones Sacrificed Her Daughter
Friday, 23 October, 2026
Former public defender and former NYC candidate Maud Maron joins Lou to talk about Nikole Hannah-Jones's confession about her daughter's education, what happened to the "tough New Yorker," drug dealers on her stoop, and why she's done with the Democratic Party. Maud is a New Yorker, a woman, an independent, and currently "independently unemployed." She ran against Alvin Bragg for Manhattan DA on the Republican line. We get into Mamdani and Rikers, the DSA takeover, why registering as a Democrat is a trap, the teachers union nobody mentions, Lou's Queens public schools and the SHSAT, Soho encampments with furniture, and why the sidewalks are yours for the taking. Watch full episodes on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Vb53s4I0A&list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Listen on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lou-perez-podcast/id1535032081 Listen on Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU 🍺 Co-host of Happy Hour Econ → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/happy-hour-econ/id1863476697 📖 Lou's book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r 👕 Rock XX-XY Athletics. Get 20% off with promo code LOU20: https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 🌐 TheLouPerez.com | 📧 info@thelouperez.com ✉️ Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez 🎬 Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/title/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d 0:00 – Intro: Maud Maron, independently unemployed 0:36 – We met at FreedomFest in Memphis 1:42 – The face cream the government doesn't want you to have 3:51 – Keeping tabs on Brooklyn through Nextdoor 4:33 – What happened to the tough New Yorker? 5:43 – Drug dealers on the stoop and two cops in the living room 8:38 – "He looked like Boston Rob from Survivor" 9:37 – Push-in robberies: safety is the baseline 13:03 – What's changed since Maud's public defender days 13:32 – Her grandfather and the old Democratic machine 14:39 – Mamdani, Rikers, and the Trinitario gang member 16:55 – Jumaane Williams vs. Target over ICE 18:28 – Democrats who defend gang members 20:44 – Maud's question: is there a path for NYC Republicans? 21:33 – The registration trap 23:31 – Pataki, Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Larry Sharpe 26:29 – The DSA took over the party 28:13 – Politics is a street fight 28:25 – Nikole Hannah-Jones and her daughter 33:11 – The teachers union nobody mentions 33:45 – $50,000 a year per student 37:18 – Lou's Queens public schools and the SHSAT 40:26 – When Asian kids don't count as people of color 41:06 – Argentina and Tucumán pride 42:41 – Running against Alvin Bragg, and what's next 43:17 – Saritha Komatireddy vs. Tish James 44:57 – Trump cleaned up Union Station 45:33 – Soho encampments with furniture 46:32 – The sidewalks are yours for the taking
