Derek Humphrey: Comedy and Being a Navy Fireman

0:00 – Intro: comedian Derek Humphrey, live from Lou's basement
1:08 – Derek's very red home office
3:19 – Working from home with kids asleep upstairs
4:23 – ADD and getting work done
5:30 – From improv to sketch to stand-up
6:33 – Writing books because stand-up burns you out
8:39 – Doing comedy for an audience
9:39 – What works live doesn't always work online
10:46 – Jokes exist outside the boundaries of morality
11:52 – Jo Koy and comedy for different crowds
14:00 – Norm Macdonald, Columbine, and a numb generation
15:05 – Escapism and comfort TV
17:12 – Getting hooked on chiropractor videos
20:20 – What COVID did to Derek's health
21:23 – Why the most interesting people are messy
23:34 – Successful comedians who are boring offstage
24:37 – The funniest guy Derek knows is a real estate agent
25:38 – Derek's projects and his movie send-up
29:58 – Missed opportunities before and during COVID
33:11 – Losing a movie's funding in lockdown
34:17 – Stuck in an apartment with a baby
37:24 – Walks that felt like freedom
39:30 – The hall monitors who loved lockdown
41:35 – "I definitely have extremist views"
43:39 – The Constitution, guns, and the NRA myth
45:45 – The Gadsden flag and being called an extremist
48:57 – Watching history from the front seat
51:13 – Navy fireman and chemical, biological, and radiological warfare
52:22 – The USS Donald Cook and training under the USS Cole crew
54:27 – Joining the Navy before cell phones
56:36 – Why he signed up: getting out of Ohio
57:43 – The Navy as a fresh start
59:49 – What a Navy fireman actually does
1:00:51 – Stuck in the Red Sea after 9/11
1:02:55 – Questions about the Saudi hijackers
1:05:05 – College after the Navy and wrap-up