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Bert Kreischer is a stand-up comedian, presenter and podcaster who has found huge success in all three areas.

He was discovered by Will Smith a short time after starting stand-up comedy, had the life option to his life bought by Oliver Stone and was the inspiration behind Van Wilder after a Rolling Stone article on his hard-partying life came out.

His two Netflix specials The Machine and Secret Time are streaming now, while we he spoke to us he had just sold out 2 night at Vicar Street having never played a show in Ireland before.

0.30: Hannah Gadsby
2.00: Being discovered by Rolling Stone and then Will Smith
5.20: Comedians in LA supporting each other
7.54: Weeding out bitter, toxic comedians
8.30: Marc Maron
11.25: Selling out 2 nights at Vicar Street
12.50: Oliver Stone and Oprah
15.50: The Machine going viral
19.10: Connecting with an audience
21.10: Irish crowds like being offended
21.45: LeAnn Kreischer
24.20: The explosion of podcasts
27.00: Finding an audience
29.25: That time he mixed up guests on his podcast
31.00: Why Chris Pratt gets so much shit
33.25: Doug Stanhope and a really dark joke
34.30: Chris D'Elia and Theo Von
38.00: Drinking before going on stage
38.30: Sean Evans and Hot Ones
40.45: Sober October and how hard Joe Rogan works out