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#375 - Faizon Love on 40 Years Of Making People Laugh

The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers, Sports Figures, Musicians, & Intellectuals
The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers, Sports Figures, Musicians, & Intellectuals
Episode • Nov 18, 2023 • 24m

Comedian and actor Faizon Love chats with Trey Elling, ahead of his headlining shows at Cap City Comedy Club. Topics include:

  • Snoop Dogg forcing Faizon to retire from weed (0:00)
  • Where he draws his standup material from (4:00)
  • Having his first kid at 50 (4:33)
  • The difficult art of standup comedy (7:23)
  • Starting his standup career at the Comedy Store in the mid-1980s (10:11)
  • Faizon's first encounter with Richard Pryor (13:25)
  • Sam Kinison (14:31)
  • Comparing standup and comedic acting (15:52)
  • A scene from Elf as an example of comedic timing (19:08)
  • Learning to surf for Blue Crush (20:10)
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