00:00you've heard the old trick about picturing everyone in the audience in their underwear
00:13to kind of calm you down but what if you were in your underwear too i would not be calm
00:19and feel your anxiety oh my god this week four stand-up comedians did just that
00:26performing not on a stage but on the steps of a sauna to a group of other men men and women oh i
00:35didn't see the women yeah yeah yeah no there's there's men and women in the crowd here oh yeah
00:39there's one was court there yeah i was gonna say he was one of the four wasn't he scored up in the
00:44top no he's one of the comedians yeah court could you do a sauna show i i've done worse
00:51now i guess it wasn't bad but doing comedy before a concert is a terrible idea when they're there for
01:00music yeah it was the worst thing i've ever done i just wanted to evaporate yeah yeah it doesn't fit
01:06but this would be fun if you like cater it to sauna jokes how many sauna jokes could you have give
01:14them a day yeah you know uh stuff about raking me over the coals um something about wood let me
01:22write these down these are good yeah they're not uh so if you want to check this out by the way
01:26there's a link to the story at daveandchuckthefreak.com but four comedians performed in a sauna
01:31at one of new york's busiest bathhouses between punchlines guests swapped sweat for shivers plunging
01:40into icy pools doing cold plunges after the saunas it's mark norman he was this yeah he was one of
01:50them he was one of them yeah okay and they'd go out there and then plunge into a quick cold plunge
01:56after the sauna sets not my favorite uh set oh court yeah yeah yeah i saw
02:04asian comedian she's doing a set there too oh my god get him another towel this place in new york
02:12is called stop it this place in new york is called the social schvitz oh yeah it's developed uh cult
02:19following it's got its start during the pandemic it's a sauna ice bath and tea lounge and they've
02:25just tried something new stand-up comedy so you follow people into a lounge you sip on some tea you get
02:33into your bathing suits and then you move your way into the sauna you do a comedian does a set you
02:41sit in the sauna watch then when that's over you go out you cold plunge you go back into the sauna for
02:46the next comedian what a wild thing as a comedian to be like yeah i got a gig at this sauna yeah it
02:54doesn't seem like it goes i'm there for relaxation not comedy but laughter is the best medicine
02:59yeah there we go sauna a bitch oh no no no pretty good same thing you thought about the cornbread
03:11crackers pretty good he's got three jokes already yeah oh interesting i well i can handle i i'd hear
03:21three jokes that's about how long i can sit in a sauna oh you don't like it no i can't i thought i
03:26keep trying i'm hot or i can't stand the heat get out of the sauna oh no turn we can't turn
03:32he's got his own he's got his own he's got four hey why are you blowing steam five wait that's the
03:45other one oh yeah this is so this dry sauna you can't handle no at least i don't know what it is
03:51i just can't like amber love amber gets it in there for half an hour i love it yeah i try to be
03:56with her and i'm like i like the so the dry one does it also you pour the stuff over the rocks or
04:05does it not have the rocks it has the rocks but it's no steam there's no it's just no steam it's okay
04:09just dry steam i don't like the steam that's a lot of germs yeah i like them all you do yeah you're a
04:18i'm not but i like them i didn't know you were in the last sauna i was in i was i think in grade
04:25school oh okay oh well no i've done it several times but i just not my thing they say the comedians
04:31were great the whole experience sweat shivers laughter shared human energy elevated it beyond
04:38an ordinary night out the people that went gave it really good reviews i mean yeah i mean something to
04:46do something to do it's different i mean as long as the people were funny then you probably had an
04:53okay night yeah sauna day night live i need to get them to have a microphone button in here for me
05:01oh that you can brush that you can just turn off i can just turn right oh my god hey that's six
05:09jokes already yeah are they hey listen i'm so yawning in here
05:15they got a good laugh the battle of the sauna jokesters love a burn
05:24you
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