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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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The Lou Perez Podcast - Harris Sockel
Friday, 3 April, 2026
Lou Perez is joined by Harris Sockel, lead editor at Pirate Wires — the tech media company that covers Silicon Valley without hating it. They cover a lot of ground in this one. TOPICS INCLUDE: - What Pirate Wires is and why it started on Substack during the pandemic - Why AI doom coverage is dishonest (and why the doomers won't go full prepper) - Lou's experience using Claude AI for press kits, pricing, and writing courses - Can AI actually replace long-form journalism? Harris says not yet — and explains why - AI chatbots, teen suicide cases, and the litigation playbook against tech companies - Humanoid robots: cooking, sex, and whether to charge yours in the hallway - The data center water myth, debunked — they use less water than golf courses - Nuclear power's comeback and what went wrong with Biden's AI regulation approach - Harris's doctor pulled up ChatGPT mid-appointment and told him to read it - Waymo self-driving cars and the future of driving as a rich-person hobby - Harris goes to a Starbucks strike in Brooklyn — almost nobody worked at Starbucks - California's wealth tax, billionaire flight, and one very quotable anonymous billionaire - SAG-AFTRA dues and the gap between union theory and union reality GUEST: Harris Sockel — Lead Editor, Pirate Wires https://www.piratewires.com LOU'S LINKS: Book — That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Website: https://www.thelouperez.com Newsletter: https://substack.com/@louperez YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thelouperez
