High Confidence, Low Self-Esteem

Camilla Cleese joins Steve to talk about how horses and comedians have a lot in common, the difficulties women face in comedy, and growing up being expected to fail.

Steve and Chris talk everything from religion to Detroit. But the core of the episode focuses on standup - the journey of starting out and how to deal with the craziness that surrounds every comic, and comes from some of them directly.

Dan Ahdoot takes a break from shooting Super Fun Night on ABC, despite Steve not knowing Dan was on that show. The two reminisce about performing the college circuit, take questions about hecklers, and debate the loopholes of certain super powers.

Adam Hunter joins Steve to reminisce about when the two were roommate in their mid 20s living in LA. As any episode with Adam would be, the conversation goes to sex, sex, comedy, and more sex. Listeners get a window into the guy Steve used to be and how his comedy (and confidence) developed.

Mark Valley joins Steve in the garage for a discussion on Man Points, getting kicked in the balls, the merits of hypnosis, and what it was like to screw with some USC film students.

Steve is back in LA, and his wife Sara joins him for a special episode about how horrible it is to move into a new place. The subject bounces to their hatred for parents (as it always does), and they discuss their future goals for the house - to upgrade it to mediocre.

Scott Sharp joins Steve Hofstetter live from NYC at the Laughing Devil, where they discuss TV shows that have jumped the shark, time travel, and needy comedians. Basically what they'd be discussing even if there was no podcast.

In this pre-recorded interview, Roy Wood Jr. and Steve discuss being a self-starter, including an amazing story about how self-starting got Roy arrested, and the scheming that turned him from priors to Pryor.

In this pre-recorded interview, Ben Gleib discusses how he went from a child who couldn't speak to one of the stars of Chelsea Lately. Ben and Steve tribute 90210, discuss how crappy childhoods make you a good person, and explore what almost making it can do to a person.

It's Seattle live! Having Steve's real-live spouse in the episode proved enlightening. Sara confessed that his funny-on-stage is not the same as his funny-in-person and added that couples who have a great marriage are amused by each other. She writes the blog MeRedone.com, and had a tip for online daters: Forget the dinner, meet with a foreseeable end. This was certainly a different side of Steve than seen in previous podcasts. Though there were no Danny Freak-Outs this week, encounters by Sara and Steve with hotels and those who use corridors for sports training would certainly have freaked him out. And the Seattle International Comedy Competition that pulled them from L.A. rages on.