ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How are you doing, Josh?
JOSH GONDELMAN:I am doing great.
Im excited for when that arrives!
you might do CD, you might do just digital, some people are doing vinyl.
Im going to give you a free cassette to listen to when you drive.
Were you trying to punish your fans?
It was a total accident!
And I was like, Oh, sure, fine.
Thursday, no problem with that whatever would create a conflict on a Thursday?
Those are the big things … if theres sports, you just dont expect anything else to happen there.
Oh, the Bruins are playing.
In fact, my first album I recorded during a Bruins game Stanley Cup finals game, I believe.
And my dad and my sister came to the taping that night.
I recorded the first album in a much smaller venue.
Any theory on why that is?
I think theres a really great dichotomy that I think helped me develop as a stand-up.
Im closer to a dork if anything just because Im not good at stuff.
Im more like a failed non-nerd.
Unless youre reallytryingto go the other way and be like, No,dontgo Sox!
So in comedy circles and in general, you have a reputation of being a very nice guy.
[Laughs] I dont know what it is.
Its very kind of people to say, and its not a reputation that I mind.
But I always feel like people whodontdo stand-up say it, which is a totally lovely compliment.
So its like if a comic says, Oh, yeah, super nice guy.
If you go, Hey, do you know Josh?
[Laughs] So it took me a little while to get okay with having that as a reputation.
Similarly, your comedy often has an optimistic tone to it.
What sort of comedians did you flock toward as a kid?
I think it was cassettes.
Eight CDs or 12 cassettes, something like that.
Well, thats not true.
And then I got this2000 Year Old Manalbum with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.
Billy CrystalsMahvelous!Album.
I probably watched that a million times.
It was always on Comedy Central because they would just show hour-long specials all the time.
So its either you watch comedy specials or you set things on fire in a parking lot somewhere.
Think you made the right decision there.
So, I should ask aboutModern Seinfeld whats the status on that?
Still on hiatus, or are there plans to revive it anytime soon?
Its just kind of slowed down.
I think weve both just been kind of busy and pouring that kind of energy into other projects.
But its certainly … its probably not done forever, I will say.
