Out Loud: A Queer Comedy Podcast · Corbin Willmorth

Episode 8 - Holden

·1 hr 23 min·2 clips

My friend from the bathroom defends the trans comedian with absurd logic: he lost his penis in war, not being gay

Corbin opens in a frustrated register. He frames Out Loud as a queer comedy podcast and introduces Holden as the guest. Holden works in Austin, hangs around ColdTowne Theater or Fallout Theater, is a U.S. Army veteran, and co-hosts DEI comedy. The talk starts with a bathroom story. Corbin and Holden trade veteran anecdotes and argue over which version sounds more believable. From there, the story gets messy fast. A sideways joke about a comic in the Philippines opens the door to gossip, half-serious suspicion, and the sort of private knowledge that circulates in local scenes. Corbin keeps pulling the conversation back to the comedy circuit. He talks about queer trans friends who recognize names, whisper about them in private, and treat the scene like a place where everybody knows everybody else. Then the focus shifts again. Corbin says Joe Rogan is not some gatekeeper who will make someone famous, but just another asshole with a huge platform. Tony Hengecliff gets hit too. Corbin compares him to someone who takes other people's minute and turns it into his own act, keeping the rant in the lane of comic-by-comic resentment rather than abstract theory. The guest and host keep the pace loose. Their back-and-forth stays casual and profanity-heavy, with interruptions, corrections, and side comments left in the mix instead of cleaned up. The episode lands on sexuality. Corbin says sexuality is a spectrum and that the phrase scares a lot of people, especially cis straight male comics who think queer material is fine only when it stays safely joke-shaped. The outro is straightforward. Corbin thanks listeners, points them toward the show notes and his plugs, gives a shoutout to Morningstar, asks for more queer comedian recommendations, and signs off with the reminder not to keep your head on straight.

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A loose queer-comedy hang that gets sharp when it turns from scene talk to sexuality and comic ego.

This episode stays loose with Holden, a U.S. Army veteran and one of the hosts of DEI comedy, moving from comedy-scene talk into jokes about sexuality, scene status, and the stories comics tell themselves about success.

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You want queer-comedy chatter that turns into a blunt takedown of Joe Rogan and Tony Hinchcliffe.

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