Matt Balaker on Comedy Legend Greg Giraldo - Honest Offense 65

Matt Balaker is a comic, writer, and author of "Greg Giraldo: A Comedian's Story."

Greg Giraldo was one of the great standup comics of the early 2000s. He was a regular on Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, and the network's annual roasts. Before getting into comedy, Greg graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law School and briefly practiced corporate law in New York. Greg died of an overdose in 2010 at age 44.

"Greg Giraldo: A Comedian's Story": https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q15G6CK

Follow Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattybgame

00:00 Introduction
02:20 How did the book come about?
03:30 Greg growing up
8:00 Greg's legal career
11:20 How Greg got into comedy
20:00 Greg's early entertainment career
24:20 Tough Crowd & Comedy Central in the early 2000s
36:50 The Comedy Central roasts
38:50 Greg's standup career
42:40 Greg's imposter syndrome
46:50 Media coverage of Tough Crowd vs. The Daily Show
50:10 Greg as mentor
52:23 Greg vs. Patrice O'Neal
56:25 Succumbing to addiction
58:50 Missing Greg in today's world
59:27 "Can We Take A Joke?"
1:02:00 What Matt is up to next

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