Comedian Brian Posehn is back with a new comedy special, 'Posehna Non Grata.'  He joined Trending to talk all about the special, his tour, and appearing on 'The Mandalorian.'

Comedian Brian Posehn Talks New Special 'Posehna Non Grata,' Appearing on 'The Mandalorian'

I see you at an airport wearing flip flops and you're a dude wearing flip flops, it's really hard for me to not run up to you in disco and then screen flip flop in his face. I totally agree. By the way, welcome back fred to trending. That's Jordan and baker and our next guest to stand up comic actor and writer whose career in Hollywood has spent more than 25 years, 25 years and he's making his return to the stand up stage with a new special titled Post sane on non grata. Yeah, so joining us now, comedian brian pose ain't brian, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me. Alright, so by the way, I totally agree with you about wearing flip flops at the airport. Those who do deserve to go to Guantanamo. But what are some of the other topics fans are gonna hear you discuss in this special? That's it just inappropriate footwear. That's all I talk about. You know, um I talk about, well for me, you know, I didn't perform for a lot of people. I didn't perform for two years because of Covid and, and so it starts off the special with dealing with that and how I would just do five shows for my family every weekend. Charge a two drink minimum. I'd have my dog sit up front. No heckling policy. I'd throw my son in the pool if he interrupted me and I got to know what brian, what you wear to the airport. I'm curious, please please don't say flip flops, what do I wear? Just jeans, what I wear every day, but, but card shoes for sure, for sure. So we'll get back to the flip flops, but in your career you've released two half hour special for Comedy Central, four comedy albums and three hour long specials. So tell us what you think has been the key of the longevity of your career. People still coming to see me. I think it's it's really up to still having an audience and still having something to say, you know? Um I feel like I've grown through my thirties, forties and fifties in front of people and just talking about usually how gross I am. It's, it's a self deprecating now, you're currently on tour right now, you're gonna be performing at comedy clubs throughout the country over the next few months tonight, by the way, you're actually in Louisville Kentucky. I got to know, especially for comedians. Do do you change your material depending on where you're playing at? No. Um but like if I have, if I have something that's pertinent to where I am, I will, I'll throw something in like local references and that kind of thing, but no, generally uh the act gets worked out on the road and it changes until it's special and then and then uh and then I start looking for new materials, so right now I'm actually trying in new jokes with the hour that's working so well, awesome. Well brian, let's take things back a little bit, Let's talk about one of your first ever tv jobs Mr show which aired on HBO from 1995. So funny to 1998 you were both a writer and a performer on it and at the Golden Globes at 12 years old age, so gracefully. Absolutely. Another fun fact there for you. Well, at the Golden Globes, Abbot Elementary creator and Star Quinta Brunson's mentioned MR show in her speech as one of her biggest comedy influences. Why do you think the show has remained so influential? I hadn't heard that. That's so cool. I don't know. I think it still has that appeal. Like it's still that thing that you pass on to friends, I think because I think people know that it it wasn't mainstream and that not everyone saw it, you know? And so it does, you know, it still has this cold following, but uh I'm just amazed. It does, and I felt like it would at the time because we knew we were making something special. I was so you know, amazed to be in the room with bob and David at the time, and I knew they were like the funniest guys I had ever met and I knew that we were making something that would make people laugh and be around for a while, by the way. You also appeared in season one episode, one of the Mandalorian and we know you're a self proclaimed nerd. You even wrote a book called Forever nerdy. So I gotta know what does it mean to be a part of the Star Wars universe, especially the first episode of this show. It's honestly one of the greatest things to ever happen. Like it's still, my son, also was a huge fan of Star Wars nerd and you know, to get to take him to the premiere and he got to meet Jon Favreau and so I'm like, I'm like, awesome dad forever. Like, that won me a lot of points. It won me a lot of points and he's still like, you know, at the house were a Mandalorian house, we've got, you know, toys from it all over the house and everything. So how, how fun will your nerd um also extends to the world of comic books, you've co written 45 issues of the marvel comic book series, Deadpool, Would you ever want to write a screenplay for a marvel show or movie? Oh, for sure, that's, it's a hard thing to get into, but yeah, Oh yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm trying, there's, I'm not done, I've been doing this a long time, but I still have things that I want to do. That's definitely a goal. I've also dabbled in horror, you know, with being in Devil's rejects and I'd love to write a horror movie eventually too. So, you know, it's, it's all stuff I'm trying to get done before I'm done doing things, maybe the sequel to Megan. You can do it, brian Megan was amazing. So I would love to see that. I saw that with my son and we just laughed. And your son, you keep getting all these great points with your son by the way. It's amazing. Well, awesome. Thank you so much to comedian brian Post Same. His special post seen a non grata is available to purchase and stream on his website, brian post ST dot com. Alright guys.