words: Hilary Lawson
When you’re not blessed with style or looks, you gotta pull out your nerd game. You know those fascinating and obscure bits of knowledge that make the ladies listen? Combine that special game with something that actually makes them laugh and you’ve got a sexual lubricant that’ll never dry up. Mmmm. But since being funny’s no easy task, you might need some guidance. Here’s where The Playboy Interviews: The Comedians comes through. In a world where celebrity interviews have become just another pit stop in the publicity circuit, Playboy probes deeper than your average soft cover star chronicle. Playboy interviews have always stood out as rare examples of authentic journalism, and since Oregon-based M Press Books won the much sought-after rights to compile the Q&A’s in book form, they’ve been cranking these bitches out with the quickness. The newest addition to the series includes 11 interviews, chock full of funny-as-shit conversations with legendary players in the comedy biz.
But we know you want the dirt, and Playboy gives it to you raw, in all its explicit glory. And if your only game is some solid nerd game, you’ll want to study these interviews hard, because quite frankly—these dudes aren’t exactly the best looking. However, they’re probably the most hysterical and interesting men to grace comedy in the last 50 years. And take it from the pros, being funny and interesting can be very rewarding.
Chris Rock lets you know what you’re missing out on when he asks, “What’s better
than some woman calling you papi?” But how does a normally sub-par Chris Rock
get women to call him papi in the first place? Read and learn. Or look through Woody
Allen’s glasses and into his soul of self-deprecation. On the subject of orgies, Woody claims, “If I was invited to one, I’d be the guy they sent out for cold cuts.” This kind of self-bashing tactic was the key to Allen’s killing it with the ladies—of course when he was still a harmless neurotic weirdo and not a creepy-ass pedophile.
The Playboy Interviews: The Comedians provides insight into the minds of nerd players from Jim Carrey and Jon Stewart to Steve Martin and Bill Cosby, also exploring how money isn’t always the best route to virtue. George Carlin, for example, spent 30 years in the comedy business battling a gnarly coke addiction, blasting lines with the frequency of breathing and pissing away loot like a goddamn ATM: “In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.” If you’re short on swagger and care about details, this comedic anthology acts as a tutorial for quickly bedding your choice sexual desire. All you have to do is scoop it up and spread the love.
