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New York City based Comedian Max White interviews Comics, Writers, Athletes, Filmmakers, Photographers, Models and more. New video episodes starting December 2020 available on YouTube!
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Stand-up craft becomes tangible through frank guest accounts of bombing, rebuilding material, creative motivation, and public recognition.
Max White gets comics talking about the work beneath the performance. Conversations with Jared Waters, Paul Oddo, Gabe Pacheco, and Billy Prinsell move through writing habits, bombing, creative slumps, open mics, and the odd consequences of public recognition.
A Brooklyn bar's smell becomes a riff; Max White has Antarctic wind for you, too.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose comic conversation that turns a military family life story into a sharp look at the scene and its old code.
Jared Waters is presented as a comic whose military family background runs through the conversation without turning it into a tidy life story.
A local comic hang that turns club talk into a blunt argument about vanity and bravado.
Max White and Gabe Pacheco keep the opening stretch rooted in a very local kind of hang, where Greenpoint, the Tenor Trap, and the four-block walk home do most of the heavy lifting.
A club-room chat about building bits, testing them live, and letting the room answer back.
Max White Presents plays like a working-room comedy hang, staying close to the mechanics. Billy Princell and the host dig into Hindsight at Caroline's, the interactive storytelling setup, and how Dan handles most of the lineup work.
A grimy club chat about comedy, the downswing, and the side work that keeps a comic moving.
Max White spends this conversation with Paul Odo on the grind of staying funny after the album and the book, while the club setting hangs over everything with beer, throw-up, blood, and bad choices lodged in the wood grain.
A stranger calls. Chris Gethard listens. Anything can surface.
Max White and Jessica Gilbert record from Antarctica on December 3, 2022, while working as guides for Ice X Expeditions.
Max White introduces Jared Waters at Tenor Trap in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and starts with the simple mystery of where he actually comes from.
Max White opens at the Tenor Trap in Greenpoint with Gabe Pacheco.
At the Tender Trap in Brooklyn, the host calls it Max White Presents and brings in comedian and friend Billy Princell while talking about how hard it is to lock down dates.
Max White opens with Paul Odo at the Tender Trap.