Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Bleav in The Comedy Bureau Field Report
Episode: Ep. 164: Mike Bridenstine & Butthole Vietnam/Chronicling History of a Comedy Scene
Description: The collectors and curators of comedy history are rare, but they are usually delightful beings to not only shoot the breeze with, but learn the tenor of a comedy scene in decades past.
One of our favorite comedy folks, Mike Bridenstine, transplanted from a time period of Chicago comedy that has vastly influenced comedy at this very moment, has captured an exhaustive history of those years in his book The Perfect Amount of Wrong, which boasts the early days of Kumail Nanjiani, Hannibal Buress, Cameron Esposito, Jena Friedman, and many more. We talk to Bridenstine about what...