Morgan Jay is a first-generation American who got his start in comedy upon arriving at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and eventually dropped the normal set-ups and punchlines for a guitar, crowd work and improvised songs. He has built up a following of about 1 million on TikTok, and he released his newest special, Live At The Village, at the end of May 2023. Jay spoke to me about overcoming the stigma against musical comedians as well as becoming popular on TikTok, what it’s like to receive a DM from Nick Cannon while you’re performing in Scotland, and his experiences performing on TV shows such as NBC’s Bring The Funny and MTV’s Wild n’ Out.
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Last things first, so I don't know if you remember me from Edinburgh last summer.
Of course, yeah! We go way back. I knew about The Comic’s Comic from when I started doing comedy in New York.
Oh really? OK.
Yeah, so I was checking your blog out, the vlog and the reviews and things like that for a while.
Thank you. So you went to NYU’s Tisch School. Did you know you were going to be a comedian and specifically a musical comedian when you showed up as a freshman?
I didn’t know I was going to do musical comedy. I knew I was going to do stand-up at some point literally the first week of college I did the open mic. They had a welcome week open mic, which I thought was gonna be like 20 people, but about 400 students showed up so it was a little overwhelming. I did five minutes. I think my first joke, which is funny because it was like 16 years ago, was about Spider-Man, about him shooting webs out of his butt and then I saw the new Spider-Man and they did — obviously it wasn't my joke, it was basically idea overlap, you know what I mean? It's not like I had the most original idea of all time.
Well, the Spiderverse contains multitudes.
It does. But yeah, at 18, I did my first open mic, but I didn't really start doing stand-up until I want to say 2007. I did my first bringer show at Carolines that year during the summer, then yeah, I was just like doing it once a month in college. And then, you know, once a week and then eventually after I graduated, it was every day. And then it wasn't until I moved to LA that I brought the guitar into it, but that was sort of like an afterthought. Like I just never thought of doing it mostly because of the stigma I think we get from our comedy peers about using a guitar even though there's plenty of examples of it going well, you know what I mean? My last year in New York, I got referred by Nick Vatterott to audition for JFL and then I moved to LA and then I auditioned for JFL again, and nothing happened. I had auditioned for like a couple of things on MTV and this thing with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon also fell through so I just kind of got tired of the stand-up. And then I just wanted to do something that was fun — not to say the stand-up wasn't fun, but I guess I got tired of my jokes, essentially.
Were all of your auditions without the guitar?
Yeah. So I was 24 for my first audition for JFL. That was recommended by Nick and I did you know, six minutes of stand-up on that lineup.
What was that like? What was your non-musical persona?
I'll be honest, it was very, like, positive energy, good vibes. I was doing a lot of act outs. You know, it's funny that you know, this is called The Comic’s Comic, but like, I never got the sense that I was a comic’s comic because I was also doing open mics in New York and shows in New York that were music venues. So there was a place called Bar 4 that I did a lot of shows at, a place called Caffe Vivaldi that I did a lot of shows that, it was mostly a music crowd. So I was never doing, you know, jokes for comics in the back of the room. So I was doing very, like, you know, high energy — there's a lot of like, when you're bombing but all the comics are laughing in the back — like I wasn't that. Not that I wasn't bombing from time to time, but I definitely wasn't like, trying to do like very, like edgy cynical type material.
So the comics probably weren't even paying attention to you.
No, no, probably not. And they still don't. No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, then so then when I moved to LA, I finagled another audition for JFL — the first audition was at Creek and the Cave when Rebecca Trent was running the venue there (in Long Island City). I just felt like oh, I did so great. I just feel like I knocked it out of the park. There's been a lot of instances where I didn't know how far down the rabbithole went like JFL. I remember having a conversation with Rory Scovel about it in New York. I was doing my first audition, he was like I'll be honest with you, man. I auditioned like seven times before I ever got it. And like, by the time I got it, it wasn't gonna move the needle for me. You know what I mean?
At a certain point, you might be auditioning for New Faces, but you're no longer a new face.
Exactly. 100% I auditioned this year, you know what I mean? I told my reps, is this weird? I'm like, 36, I've been doing this for 15 years. You know what I mean?
Also, I’ve been on television.
Yeah, I have like a full tour. They said, no, just do it anyway. It's good to be there.
So what was the moment where you said, screw this, I'm gonna pick up the guitar and try something else on stage?
Yeah, that was the summer I want to say of 2013. I was always playing guitar. I was always singing, but I never did it onstage for comedy. I mean, I did it once or twice in New York, but not really seriously. But I wrote two songs. And I just gave myself two months to do it, in the sense that I wasn't like, I do musical comedy now. It was sort of like, let me just write great two songs, and then I'll do them at open mics around LA and shows and see how it goes. And that was kind of, the rest is history because you know, two songs turned into I'm on my third album, second special, so we're about like 30 songs deep. I have another hour that I'm working on with more music and I've written kids songs and other types of music that are not exclusive to comedy. It's just been a good growing experience.
You mentioned there being a stigma against musical comedians. How much did that stop you from from starting on this path earlier?
I think there was a little bit of that in there. I think mostly, the idea of being a stand-up comedian was so strong in my head, like, I just thought it was so cool. One person on stage with a microphone. And I just had this vision of like, I really wanted to do that. Even though the reality of that is a little bit different. I think there was a stigma even and I think the fear came in more the first year sort of doing it because I did run into some comedians who, I remember this one comedian, who shall remain nameless. It was like a show in LA, this is like early on in the comedy thing. He was like, What the fuck is this dude? You're gonna be a guitar comic now? Then again, there was another comedian, who I remember, Mike Lawrence, who's so funny. And Mike, you know, I feel when I was when I was in New York and Mike was coming up like I feel like he was very like you know, purity comedy man. You know what I mean? Like, he was an all the alt shows and all the alt rooms and I remember I did Hot Tub in LA, or was it or was it a super serious show? Well, Joe and Mandee both produced those shows. And I was on the lineup and Mike was on the lineup. It was me, Mike. Reggie Watts, and TJ Miller. I did my music comedy. And Mike was like, it was really amazing. He was the last person I would have expected to give a compliment to music comedy. He was the last person I'd expect. That's how I felt.
Might have helped that you were on a bill that also included Reggie Watts.
Sure. I don't even know if he did music that night, actually, because you know if you see Reggie now you kind of don't know if he's going to do music or if he's going to do some stand-up or kind of like a fake TED Talk.
Well, that's the thing about both Reggie and as you mentioned, Rory Scovel, is that they're willing to just throw out the script of what you expect the stand-up comedian to do and just do their own thing.
Yeah, and I definitely admire that and I look up to that and I try to take some of that and to infuse that into my own show. Even with the new special. I do moments of crowd work into the songs on purpose to see, it's kind of structured right, but it can still kind of go off the walls a little bit, you know?
The first place most people saw you was probably Bring The Funny.
I get recognized more for TikTok than I ever did for that show, though.
Right, but Bring The Funny predated TikTok.
Absolutely. Like just slightly and I remember the first time I got recognized from Bring The Funny I was going to performer at a college in like the middle of nowhere and the flight attendant was like, oh my god, I saw you on that show. You were so funny. You know, so that was cool.
What was your life like the day before you got the audition for that show?
Well, so Bring The Funny, it was interesting. I didn't really get an audition for that show. In the sense, what happened was, I had two friends separately recommend me for the show. And I never actually auditioned for it. I had shot my first special I Hope My Ex Doesn’t See This, which by the way, I never intended to release that, but then once the pandemic hit, I put it out. But I shot the first special and I had this hour, a little bit less than an hour of good footage. I've gotten recommended and then the show just asked what bits do I have? So I sent them the hour and I was like well these are basically what I could do on national television. And that was kind of it, because it was only going to be at most four television experiences. So they were like alright, we want you to do this bit this bit this bit, like in this order. And that was kind of it. It was very terrifying. My third appearance honestly was the scariest one. I was doing a song called “Split the Check.” And I was going to do the crowd work portion of that song with (celebrity judge) Chrissy Teigen. You know, normally when you do crowd work in a club, you can pick somebody out that —what we want is somebody who's going to be shy and nervous when you're doing crowd work.
When you think shy, you never think Chrissy Teigen.
I don't know if she’s gonna try to be cute, if she’s gonna try to like, tell a joke.
She's gonna hijack it?
100% But you know, to her credit she she played along. She was a really good sport on the show. So I remember I was just so terrified. also making it through to the final round I remember the night before like I had a full-on panic attack. I remember I couldn't sleep. The next day Jeff Foxworthy, we're outside the studio. He asked how’d I sleep last night? He told me this whole story about his first time on The Tonight Show. Really, he's just really such a nice guy. But yeah, I remember the first episode that I filmed, like my knees were shaking. I had like a stomach ache for like an hour after we filmed it. You know what it is? Sean, my first television appearance wasn't like a Tonight Show or a Late Night or Late Late Show or whatever it was. I was like still competing., if that makes sense.
It’s a competition. With prize money on the line.
I wasn't like, chosen to just like, do what I do. And also I only had two-and-a-half minutes per appearance, if that. You know, they cut stuff down. So it's like, you didn't really have, I didn't have like the luxury of getting my full five or six minutes.
Yeah, those shows whether it's Bring The Funny or America's Got Talent. It's kind of crazy for a stand up comedian to do a show like that.
Yeah. And I've been approached by AGT a couple times before Bring The Funny and it just doesn't fit for me because I'm a longer-form performer so I just couldn't fit that structure. I was surprised I was even able to fit it into Bring The Funny to be honest with you.
So aside from flight attendants recognizing you what was the immediate, was there was there an immediate bump in your career?
Only slightly, I was on three episodes. The bump was only slightly I remember I had about 6,000 followers on Instagram when I did the show and after the show I had 12,000 followers. I remember it got about 3 million viewers an episode-ish. And you know, there was obviously like a lot of producing going on, as far as like, you know, you could talk to other people who were on the show.
So the top 12 was me, Matt Rife, Michael Longfellow. Taccara Williams, Ali Siddiq. Those are the five comedians. Lewberger, which is a musical trio. There was a sketch group or two, and obviously, Ali Siddiq is incredible. Michael is absolutely hilarious. Everybody's gone on to like, do wonderful things. I don't want to get too much into that show. But the voting was based off of like internet and online voting. This was like one of the first times they were doing it. And anybody who's watching the show probably doesn't even know how to log on. I remember you had to like log on and have an account, or this or that. So the people who won was like a sketch group. And they all had like (hundreds of) thousands followers already.
Yeah, they were already huge on YouTube. They're already huge, big YouTubers, so I was shocked slash not shocked when they won.
100% So oh, the drama behind that, you know, like the minute they won like they cut out the the female — you know about the drama this?
Oh, yeah. No, I wrote about it.
Yeah. So I would love to know more about how it went down but anyway. Orlando Leyba, who was also on the show, is a really funny comedian. He was just talking about because he'd already had a couple appearances on TV. He was like, listen, man, because I was nervous. He was like look, man, these are all just commercials for you. Every appearance is just a commercial. Every appearances is go buy tickets to my show, you know? And if you treat it that way, it's kind of like, if I'm on a show now I'll be on a show in the future. You know, like, they're just little commercials. And that's how I look at social media now. Also, it's like, some people do make a living off of social media. I do not. I use it as an avenue to just promote my special and promote my live shows, ticket sales and stuff like that.
Even though you’re closing in on a million followers on TikTok. There's no money in that for you?
There's not a whole lot. You get like three cents, if that I think, per 1000 views or something like that. And then for streams on Spotify and iTunes and as as far as somebody who's like, not a well known musical comedian. I've been able to like transfer a lot of streams — I think that song “Friend Zone” has over half a million streams on Spotify alone, which is like, just all through the power of social media. It's not a substantial amount, you have to be doing like millions and millions of views per post, at least to make money off of TikTok and then trying to get people to move platforms to YouTube, it’s really hard. On Facebook and Instagram, I don't make any money because some of my Reels are just a little bit too spicy. And they usually get flagged for inappropriate language or content. So I don't make any money off of those and then..
Morgan Jay: too spicy for Instagram.
And then on YouTube also, like depending on your content, I don't get a lot of revenue from that just because of like you know, I have a song called “Fuck Right Now” and like nobody's gonna want to have an ad, unless it's like Trojan. I got offered to do one of those OnlyFans things, but I turned it down. Because OnlyFans is doing like a series of comedy specials. I was just, I'm promoting my comedy specials too much and I just couldn't be like, promoting too many things. Otherwise people get tired of it. They don't want to see your profile anymore.
So how did you wind up becoming a part of the Wild ‘n Out crew?
So that was social media. So that was basically I did a show in LA called Chocolate Sundaes. And they filmed the show, they clip the show, they ask me permission can we post this do a collab post? Two of my clips last year around June I think on their account did really well and I think somebody famous might have seen it. Or reshared it, and Nick Cannon probably saw it went through my account, I guess. And then a week after I got to Scotland, because I got there a week before the festival started.
So this was last year.
This was just the last year so like a week after I got to Scotland, which was the first week of August. I woke up to a DM from Nick Cannon that was like, You want to come wild out with us? Like a week after. I was like, Well, I literally am at this festival for a month. He's like, Well, you're gonna have to be in Atlanta the last week of August. I had to actually cut my run at the Fringe a week short. So I went to Atlanta. I did the audition process and then I lived in Atlanta for a month and shot 12 episodes there and that's how it went down.
That's quite a shift. Well, first off that you're on the Chocolate Sundaes show.
So Chocolate Sundaes is predominantly a black room, so that you know there's white rooms, black rooms, and I was opening for DeRay Davis. By the way, I was doing comedy for like 11 or 12 years until somebody asked me to open for them. Ever. So nobody ever asked me to open for them.
Maybe they're scared of the guitar.
The story of my career is literally like clawing for every single opportunity I’ve ever gotten. So I was at the Improv in LA. My buddy was there with at the bar with me and it was really cute girl there and I was trying to wing man for him as hed talked to this girl. And he was like man, my boy Morgan. He should be in the main room for Monderays. DeRay has a month, a weekly show there. And she was like, Well, I'm actually his assistant, I could probably get him on the show. I was like, Oh, well look I'm closing out.the show in the small room. If you want there's no pressure at this point in my career. There's points in your career where like you're really thirsty. I remember I was like four years in, and I was doing a show in the Lower East Side at this place called the Three of Cups, that RG Daniels was running and I remember I was on the lineup with like, Pete Holmes and Myq Kaplan and I was like, I just I really wish they would stay and watch my set. You're just like a young comic and you want this. And so now at this point, I was like 12 years in, I was doing colleges, I was making a living. I was like, I told this booker. I was like, Look, if you want to come watch, you can come watch. Either way. It's like it's fine. Because, you know, like, the act of wanting it so much makes it I feel even harder to grasp. So I was like, if you're gonna watch it, it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen at this point. She came in, she watched it. I got a text from her the next day, she said so you're really funny. We'd love to have you on the show. And then they booked me like a month later. I killed it on the show. Then I did another month later killed it again. And then DeRay was like, alright, so you're gonna come open for me? And I was like, sure, sure. Sure. He's like, No, no, talk to my assistant. We'll figure out the dates. And then I started doing some tour dates with him. And then he got me on Chocolate Sundaes through a referral. If you don't know anything about Chocolate Sundaes, it's one of the hardest shows to get on and it's one of the hardest shows to get passed. There's like a two- or three-year waiting list to get on the show. And I cut the line. He made a phone call and I remember I showed up. I bumped a friend of mine who was on the show. I was going to see him and DeRay was like you've never been on the show before? Hold up! He made the phone call. I was just going there to like shake hands and introduce myself. Show up bump my friend, kill it at Chocolate Sundaes. And so they had me every couple of months and that was kind of like the genesis of me getting Wild ‘n Out.
Cut to you in Scotland. That first week in the room you're playing in, that wasn’t the biggest room.
No. 42 seats. I didn't know enough. I was doing everything on my own, self-producing. I think by the time I left, I averaged about half tickets sold every night, weekends sold out a few times. But I had a 1:15pm slot and I didn't know that you could’ve like argued or make a case to do a later time slot. I just was like oh — Underbelly was one of the better venues so I was like I'll just take what they give me. So I didn't really know any better. If I'd done it again, I probably would have tried to aim for like between a 5-8pm slot. All the people who were at Underbelly who saw the show, they were like, you know, honestly, your show is one of the better shows we've seen at our company. And if you had a later time slot, you probably would have sold more tickets. Yeah, I also didn't hire flier people.
Because you self-produced does that mean you have to go out there in the late afternoon after your show and be like, come see it tomorrow!?
Yeah, and I'll be honest with you, I did that for a little bit. But I was doing like for my show. I had to run over to another venue Just The Tonic. Chris Turner had a children's show that he ran. And it was just like three comics each doing 20 minutes, and it paid. So I would do my show. Run over to that show. Do 20 minutes. I had a clean 20 minutes for kids, and then promote my show. And then I also did, there was a 10 o'clock show at Gilded Balloon that I was doing, Wally Baram’s show that she was producing with two other comics. So I was doing that show, promoting my own show. So I was promoting my show and then I did a couple of other ones. Chortle had a showcase, and I guess he (Steve Bennett) heard that I did a good job on the Chortle showcase. So Steve actually came and reviewed my show he came personally to my show sold out show. Killer show. I was like I murdered. I got three and a half stars, but it was funny because like I looked up some of the other shows that were getting like four or five stars and I went and I saw some of the shows that got four or five stars. I was just very, you know a little bit surprised.
Even me like on the other side of it. It is interesting. Like when I do reviews for Decider. It's like Pass/Fail. (Stream It or Skip It)
Right, right.
Because last year was my first Fringe, also, so I tried to follow their five-star system and it was really interesting to try to figure out what deserved four or more stars.
One show got five stars and I'll be completely transparent. I watched it, I was like, this is one of the least funny things I've ever seen in my life. I don't think one person laughed at the show, but maybe that's not what they're looking for. Maybe that’s not what the five star review was for. I don't know if because we're looking at comedy shows, we're don’t have to get into like the whole process of like, what's funny and what's not funny or how people review things or not. I'll be the first to admit I'm not like edgy, I think in Steve's review, which I thought was one of the funniest lines and I think that made the most sense, he was like “finally somebody has the courage to tackle a subject matter such as dating and relationships.” Like it was a very like tongue-in-cheek comment but honestly like it is really funny because it's like, I really stay away from religion and politics and race and things like that. And I just tried to put on like an entertaining show. And I don't know if that hurts me or helps when it comes to like getting good reviews or selling tickets, but I do know the Fringe. If I were to give the whole process of the Fringe my own rating I would give it like three out of five stars because it's like very exhausting. Very intense experience.
Now this doesn't help you but apparently they will have an app this year. which is what they didn’t have last year and a lot of people groused about that.
Yeah. So the audience reviews on my show. They're all like incredible. They loved the show. I was actually lucky to get people to review my show at all to be honest because I didn't know that people like had PR people there. People kind of campaigning for reviews or reaching out to people. I had a list. Underbelly gave us a list of all of them. But you know, I didn't do my due diligence to like reach out to people. it was just so many. there's so much and I was already dealing with a lot. So I just was like, I'm just trying to do my show.
I'm an entertaining guy. Word of mouth has always been my most useful source of promotion. That's why I was doing so many other shows at the Fringe. You know, I mean, between the three shows, my show and two other shows that I was booked on consistently, I had all these other little ones pop up as well. But I think the toughest thing about that time slot was like I couldn't really be up late doing the late comedy shows. I don't know how people go to the Fringe and like, drink and smoke and party and also do a show every day for an hour. Like I just can't do that.
They don't have a 1:15 p.m. time slot.
Exactly.
So you're running yourself ragged doing at least three shows a day. And then you get this DM from Nick Cannon. How does that land with you when you open your phone or your laptop that day and see that in Scotland?
I mean, I was literally in bed. I woke up. I was like, this was crazy. I was just trying to be cool. I'm like, Yeah, man. I'm ready. I'm ready to come. I was like, trying to be cool, because I knew it was real. I know it was real because I heard other stories about Nick reaching out to cast members that way. So that's how I knew it was real. Some people would be like, was it real? I knew it was real and Nick. He doesn't follow anybody on social media. Follows zero people. You know, he's active on there. I mean, that guy. Real shout out to him and respect to him for discovering, finding new talent, putting people on the show. I mean, even this season — season 21 that we filmed two or three weeks ago. I mean, he had like seven new cast members, like brand-new people who like, you wouldn't know who they were. All were just absolutely talented and just crushed it, and if you look through the last 20 years, 20 seasons of that show. If you look back really at every season, you're gonna see major stars that have been on that show that might have been on one episode or one season or something like it's pretty wild.
Katt Williams, Pete Davidson, the 85 South guys.
Even with SNL cast members, Mikey Day was on there. Matt Rife was on there. Taran Killam was on there. Like all these people. It is crazy. They they were onto it early on.
You seem like a low-key guy. So how have you fit in?
To this day I feel like I don't fit in on the show. I feel insecure when I do the show. I feel anxious. I have no problem saying that. I feel you know, the show is very high. It's also one of those shows where you're still competing, like I'm on a TV show. And I'm still competing, competing for screen time. You know, and the executive producer is really clear about, you know, be funny, we want the jokes to be funny, and we want them to be quick. He even said to me, it's like, you know, if I have to choose between a really funny long bid, or like two or three cast members doing short, funny bits. I'm gonna go with the shorter ones. Just because it's easier to put into the edit. I'm not really a big roaster. While I do a lot of crowd work. I'm not really going for the jugular. I'm not like really making fun of people. And my vibe is a little bit slower. And I also sing soft. And so that's kind of been a challenge to show like, they've been like, sing louder, sing louder. And it's like, if you see my show. So I'm grateful for any time I have on the show. And I do what I can on the show and if they want to keep me on the show. That's great. And if they don't like I'm also it's fine with it too. Like at this point, I've done three seasons, but I'll be fully transparent, I'm just doing the best I can, my best to fit in.
I was just watching the new 85 South special on Netflix, and now I'm trying to picture if it was instead of DC Young Fly with Chico Bean and Karlous Miller, if it was just you and DC, what kind of duo would you be?
DC is honestly one of the most talented people on the planet.
To me, he reminds me of a young Chris Tucker.
I would even go farther to say Jamie Foxx, with the exception he's not a classically trained musician. Jamie Foxx went to Juilliard, can play piano. But DC can sing, he can rap, he can act, he’s just such an incredible performer like, insane, like on the show. He could literally do anything and also Chico and Karlous are also really funny, too. But you know, DC. I mean, when you see the show, they introduce DC. He's in a class of his own, you know what I mean? So he's just, he's just like so incredible.
We touched on TikTok briefly and just to go from like one stigma to another, like you had to overcome the stigma of being a musical community right now. There's a debate among comedians about TikTok.
Vulture did a whole article about the crowd work. I was quoted in that.
I've actually had conversations in green rooms with many a comic about that. You know, TikTok for me was the game-changer in my career. And I tried to detach myself from it. Like I said, it's a commercial for my live shows. And I try not to put what's in my live shows on TikTok, except if it's crowd work. I know people hate the crowd work stuff, but like that's selling tickets. But I will say when people come to my show, I've literally had people telling me they literally go, honestly, I didn't think this was gonna be a good show because you're like a TikTok comedian. And for a lot of the people coming to my shows, they’re so much younger. I'm literally their first comedy show they've ever been to. And so they don't really know what a real comedy show is — I’m their first experience. And so I sing actual songs. I'll do between five to 10 songs depending on the crowd work or what we do and I just kind of stick to the formula where I post my clips. Now the special’s out. The plan is I post part of the special every day, and then in a month, by the end of July, I'll see what posts did well naturally, and then I'll put money behind those posts to promote the tour. So that way between July and August, people get tickets, you know, so that's what the plan is right now.
Your act is built for that, honestly. It's not like some stand-ups where they’re doing things specifically for TikTok. It's not part of their regular act, but they're like changing their act so they can have a clip. Your act is designed in these like bite-sized morsels that are already TikTok-friendly.
Yeah, it's funny. I was saying like how I'm not a short-form performer, but with TikTok, you're able to now post 15 seconds up to like 10 minute clips if you want to on TikTok. I think the only thing where the bane of my existence, and I think this has been kind of a bad thing for comedians is now the people who do utilize TikTok, where kind of everyday thinking about instead of what's the funniest thing we're thinking about, What time should I post? How many times a day should I post? What should the hashtags be? What should the comment be? What's the algorithm doing? What's the SEO like? I've never know the term SEO in my life until three years ago, you know what I mean?
It's a horrible thing to have to know.
So I think the job description has changed a little bit. You know, on the other hand, there are people who are fans of people who blow up on TikTok, and when they see them at a live show, they're disappointed. And that also does damage to comedians, because then they're not going to want to go see a live show anymore. It's both ends of it.
Fortunately, Morgan Jay, your TikToks are very good commercials. So congrats on that. Congrats on the new special Live in the Village and thanks for spending some time with me. I really appreciate it.
Thank you, man. And I'll see you sometime in New York. I'll be in New York in a couple months.
Great write up!
I remember doing mics with Morgan before the guitar, he was still a killer! One of the best right now imo.
Morgan is gonna be on our show Humor for the Hungry with Tiffany Haddish at Dynasty Typewriter. I’ve been a fan of your writing since you had the comics comic website. Let me know if you want to come check out the show!
dear sean,
love you, love morgan, love this!
love,
myq