Complaint comedy at full speed.
Tuesdays with Stories! is a high-speed comedy hang built from road stories, city complaints, illness mishaps, club talk, and dumb arguments that keep mutating. The appeal is the escalation: one small annoyance becomes a full comic case before the room has time to breathe.
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Tuesdays with Stories! is a stand-up comedy hang where the story is usually less important than how violently it gets kicked around. The show lives in the space between complaint and riff. Recent episodes start with weather, travel, New York misery, specials, door latches, illness, tennis, club spots, and Austin talk, then keep swerving until a practical detail has become a comic argument with too many side doors to count. It is fast. The rhythm depends on two voices catching, interrupting, correcting, and escalating each other, so a canceled flight, a bad stomach, or a cat slipping toward the hallway can suddenly carry the weight of a disaster movie. The subjects are ordinary, but the reactions are not. New York gets praised and condemned in the same breath: perfect when the sun comes out, impossible when anyone has to move through it with a baby, a car, a subway ride, or a schedule. Road life supplies more fuel. There are clubs, cities, theater dates, late-night sets, live pods, Patreon plans, and the constant scramble of comics trying to be places on time while still making the chaos funny. The show also keeps pulling in bits of pop culture, from sports movies and Journey lyrics to Netflix rankings, WWE Raw, Venus Williams, Anne Hathaway movies, and comedy-world names. It can be crude, personal, and gleefully undisciplined. That looseness is the point. Rather than smoothing stories into neat monologues, Tuesdays with Stories! lets them stay noisy, contradictory, and half-formed, then trusts the speed of the exchange to make them land. The result is a show for people who like comic friendship with sharp elbows: familiar enough to feel like a regular table, unruly enough that the next turn could be a medical overshare, a city rant, a showbiz gripe, or a completely unnecessary fight with a piece of popular culture.
Made for: For stand-up fans who like loose comic storytelling, road-life talk, New York irritation, and riffs that get funnier as they lose control. Best for listeners comfortable with blunt, adult banter.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart through momentum: minor problems are not just mentioned, they are cross-examined, exaggerated, interrupted, and dragged into stranger territory. Its messiness feels intentional because the callbacks and shared timing keep snapping the chaos back into shape.
Tuesdays with Stories- a fun weekly pod hosted by NYC comedians Joe List and Mark Normand. Luckily, Joe and Mark are funny (thank God) and have an endless amount of funny stories. They meet every week to spin a few hilarious yarns, sometimes with comedian friends. Give it a listen and be their friend too.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Joe List and Mark Normand turn road trouble and domestic mishaps into quick, callback-heavy banter that keeps changing direction.
Tuesdays with Stories! turns Joe List and Mark Normand's recent travel, performances, family life, and minor disasters into fast conversational comedy.
Joe List and Mark Normand make a door left ajar feel like a cat-sized emergency.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A weather spiral, a dizzy spell, and a canceled Florida flight keep the episode wobbling forward.
Tuesdays with Stories turns ordinary disruption into the engine of the episode: weather lurches from 43 degrees to 79, a Florida flight falls apart, and a dizzy night becomes a bathroom crisis.
A cat scare turns a flimsy door into a sharply escalating comic panic.
A flimsy door almost turns a cat scare into a comic emergency, and that small household problem gives the episode its loose, rising shape. Mark Norman and Joe List move from fear of an SD encounter into the simple question of how a door closes, letting each practical detail kick…
A loose, lyric-mangling hang that spins movie arguments and road updates into familiar comic rhythm.
Tuesdays with Stories gets its spark from watching a stray thought keep finding new trouble. A fake intro tumbles into botched lyrics, from "cinnamon gum" to a misassigned ELO line, before the hosts dig into Cheesecake with remembered dialogue, quick reenactments, and another…
A month-and-a-half catch-up turns toddler chaos, tennis access, and loose plans into a sharp, happily messy comic detour.
Mark Norman and Joe List come back from a month-and-a-half break with a catch-up that keeps slipping into stranger, funnier corners. A toddler's E.T.
Jazz Fest and Mick Jagger turn a loose travel story into performer awe.
A festival recap built around travel whiplash follows the host's drift toward Los Angeles, then settles into the anxious little theater of a Jazz Fest ticket scan and the Rolling Stones arriving without ceremony through "Start Me Up." The strongest run is the dazed, intoxicated…
A knowingly bad fake intro leads into a loose comic spiral about avoidance, pregnancy, marriage, and mortality.
The episode opens with a knowingly awful fake intro that sets a simple comic rule: almost any loose thought can become the next turn. A surfboard, a duck, and a knock-knock joke all slide into mock alarm about being kicked out of society, before a bad knee feeds a riff about…
Mark Norman and Joe List open Tuesdays with Stories!
Comedians Joe List and Mark Normand recap their experiences at the Netflix Is a Joke Fest in Los Angeles.
A comedic podcast episode where hosts Mark Norman and Joe List discuss their show's intro and vent about drama in comedy.
Comedians Mark Norman and Joe List banter about a Seinfeld painting and a sponsor for air conditioners.
Comedians Mark Norman and Joe List riff on the challenges of having parents stay over, their constant questioning, and the absurdity of their podcast content.
Mark and Joe engage in chaotic banter about switching studios and a movie where Anne Hathaway is nude throughout.
Comedians Mark Norman and Joe List engage in casual, humorous banter about underwear and hot air balloons in the intro of their podcast.
Joe List opens with a complaint that the Fort Lauderdale Improv started a "7:30" show at "9:00" and a "7 p.m." show at "7.25," then argues clubs should punish late comics and set a visible ticking clock.
Mark Normand and Joe List open #650 "Couch Dracula" with club gossip from the Stand, McDougal Street, the VU, and Fat Black, plus Mark’s panic about seeing SD and Quinn.
Comedians Mark Norman and Joe List banter about Netflix specials, wrestling, and a comedian's tour bus mishap.
Comedians Mark Norman and Joe List riff on how Austin's reputation shifted from hippy to right-wing, and how language changes over time.
A comedic discussion about the pros and cons of living in New York City versus Texas, with a sponsor ad for Autotrader.ca.
Mark Normand and Joe List call Virginia Beach a "military town" where the Cheesecake Factory was "bumpin' and slumpin'" after a 7 p.m. show.
An 18-year-old tennis player ranked 18th in the world served Joe List at Austin’s tournament after five minutes of warmup.