Speaker 1: I'm excited to visit with a very funny comedian by
Speaker 1: the name of Matt Sharp. He's going to be in
Speaker 1: Iowa with me tonight and tomorrow night where in Sue
Speaker 1: Falls Together. He's also a therapist and comedy and therapy.
Speaker 1: Do those things go together?
Speaker 2: Matt, Oh, absolutely good, sir.
Speaker 3: It is fun to see people being able to find
Speaker 3: joy in life. So when I work with clients with depression,
Speaker 3: you know, anytime we can find a moment of levity
Speaker 3: or humor that we can bring some laughter out is
Speaker 3: always a positive thing. And there's actually a number of
Speaker 3: therapy intervention interventions that are designed to help clients laugh
Speaker 3: at some of their own symptoms. Not to make fun
Speaker 3: of them or not to diminish them. But when I
Speaker 3: can take a stressor or a source of anxiety and
Speaker 3: laugh at that a little bit and kind of see
Speaker 3: myself in a more human way, it's actually incredibly liberating.
Speaker 3: So yep, therapy and comedy go together all the time.
Speaker 1: Now, I want to make sure that we let people
Speaker 1: know it's not like he's on stage going, oh you
Speaker 1: should hear about this one crazy dude that come to
Speaker 1: my office. It's not that at all.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 3: I mean, those hippo fines are pretty pretty steep if
Speaker 3: you're talking about clients in public. But I reserve the
Speaker 3: right to make fun of people who should be in
Speaker 3: therapy and are not.
Speaker 2: They are fair game one percent.
Speaker 1: So a therapist and a stand up comic. But which
Speaker 1: one came first? Were you a therapist that started comedy
Speaker 1: or a comedian that started doing therapy.
Speaker 3: Well, on the one hand, professionally, as far as how
Speaker 3: I get paid, you know, therapy came first. But I've
Speaker 3: been interested in comedy and been laughing and listening to
Speaker 3: old comedy records that my parents had ever since I
Speaker 3: was in sixth grade. So I've always been enjoying comedy
Speaker 3: and telling funny stories and doing a lot of public
Speaker 3: speaking with a lot of comedy, all of those things.
Speaker 3: But as far as professionally stepping on stage with a mic,
Speaker 3: that therapy came first.
Speaker 1: I think it's a cool combination. Most comics I know
Speaker 1: actually should see a therapist. Now, I've never seen you
Speaker 1: do therapy, but i've seen you do comedy, and you
Speaker 1: do a great job. And I bet you're a good
Speaker 1: therapist because you're really easy to talk to to.
Speaker 3: Sort of one of the prerequisites for our professional If
Speaker 3: people are jerks that really usually don't make good therapists.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose if the therapy session is literally just
Speaker 1: you telling him, well found the problem, it's you, they
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't come back.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I live near I live near Grand Rapids, Michigan, and
Speaker 3: I will tell the joke occasionally that I want to
Speaker 3: move my practice to Grand Rapids because they have a
Speaker 3: section of Grand Rapids called Gasolely Village, which seems like
Speaker 3: a great place to do therapy. Sit there and tell people, yeah,
Speaker 3: it is your fault and charge him for that. So
Speaker 3: so far, I don't think that's gonna work, but that's
Speaker 3: kind of the goal at some point, is to I'm
Speaker 3: totally kiddy.
Speaker 1: Or you could just try to convince him there is
Speaker 1: no problem. I don't know what you're talking about. There's
Speaker 1: no problem at all.
Speaker 2: No, nothing's here, nothing to see here at all.
Speaker 1: So I love that.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Matt Sharp is who we're talking to right now. Matt
Speaker 1: is a very funny stand up comic from Michigan. He
Speaker 1: is going to be with me tonight in Iowa Royal, Iowa.
Speaker 1: So if you know anybody in that area going to
Speaker 1: be there at the Great Hall in Royal tonight for
Speaker 1: a fun, clean comedy show. And then tomorrow night we're
Speaker 1: in Sioux Fall, South Dakota at the Ramata and you
Speaker 1: and I had a chance to work together there. That's
Speaker 1: been about a month ago. You only did like a quick,
Speaker 1: little five to ten minute set, but tomorrow night you're
Speaker 1: going to be doing like a full forty five minutes
Speaker 1: to an hour set at the Ramata. And again, very
Speaker 1: very funny guy. I'm excited to work with you again.
Speaker 2: Her. Oh, it's fun and what a great crowd.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was a smaller bunch, but man, we
Speaker 3: had a great time and the other comics you had
Speaker 3: lined up for us, And we should probably tell people
Speaker 3: that these are clean comedy shows so you can escape
Speaker 3: from your family or bring them with, whichever you prefer.
Speaker 3: Will be in the PG to PG thirteen contient rating range,
Speaker 3: so it'll be a great time. You will need to
Speaker 3: you will not need a shower or anything afterwards. We'll
Speaker 3: just have a great time laughing together and enjoying some
Speaker 3: time with family and friends.
Speaker 1: And the thing I think works out really good again.
Speaker 1: The show tonight in Royal, Iowa. The show tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: and Sue fall South Dakota. It's right after the holidays.
Speaker 1: So if you've got family and friends and people that
Speaker 1: have been staying with you and you're going, hey, I
Speaker 1: need to entertain these people, bring them out for a
Speaker 1: clean comedy show. It's going to a whole lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Or on the other hand, if you're like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I've had enough of these people, then you can just say, hey, Mom, sorry,
Speaker 1: I don't have enough tickets, so we got to go.
Speaker 1: Don't wait up for us. We're gonna be home late.
Speaker 1: You guys have a good time without.
Speaker 3: Us though, And Mom, if you're listening to this, we'll
Speaker 3: sneak you a ticket if you want to show up.
Speaker 2: We're to all the fine again.
Speaker 1: Our guest today Matt Sharp. He and I are going
Speaker 1: to be in Royal, Iowa tonight. The reason I keep
Speaker 1: bringing that one up I know it's holidays, so you
Speaker 1: know a lot of folks traveling. So if you happen
Speaker 1: to be in that area with family and friends tonight,
Speaker 1: come and join us tonight in Royal, Iowa at the
Speaker 1: Great Hall Beautiful Venue. Or if you know people who
Speaker 1: live in that area and you want to reach out
Speaker 1: and say, hey, clean comics in your neighborhood, you might
Speaker 1: want to check it out. And then tomorrow night we're
Speaker 1: going to be at the Ramata in Sioux Falls, and
Speaker 1: they've got a cool dueling piano show set up for
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, so they've already got the rooms set
Speaker 1: up for that for tomorrow night. So we're going to
Speaker 1: have our stage in the center and we're going to
Speaker 1: be able to do comedy in the round where we'll
Speaker 1: have people all around us, and then we're gonna be
Speaker 1: telling jokes in middle. Have you ever done comedy like
Speaker 1: that before, Matt.
Speaker 2: Oh, sure, absolutely, it's great fun.
Speaker 3: You kind of keep turning, make sure no one's trying
Speaker 3: to sneak up behind you, you know, to heckle you
Speaker 3: or anything.
Speaker 2: So now this is gonna be a great night.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for it, but I'm also a little concerned
Speaker 1: with my ADHD, Like I don't know where I'm going
Speaker 1: to be looking or how I'm going to do that.
Speaker 1: But and again officially, in order for us to have that,
Speaker 1: we have to have that many tickets sold. If we
Speaker 1: don't have that many tickets sold, I can pull the
Speaker 1: wall closed, and I might be doing that just for
Speaker 1: my own sanity, So we'll see if you would like
Speaker 1: to get a ticket again tonight in Royal, Iowa or
Speaker 1: tomorrow night, and that tomorrow night is Intoo Falls at
Speaker 1: the Ramata Conference Center. And there's also a silent auction
Speaker 1: tomorrow night as well. All of the details online. Matt,
Speaker 1: thanks for your time.
Speaker 2: This is going to be a great night. I can't
Speaker 2: wait to see you.
Speaker 3: Can't wait to have a lot of fun laughing in
Speaker 3: Iowa and Sue Falls.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 1: I will see you tonight, folks. I hope to see
Speaker 1: you tonight or tomorrow night. If you'd like to get
Speaker 1: ticket information, I've got links for the tickets for tonight
Speaker 1: and tickets for tomorrow night on my personal Facebook page
Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash Big John Small. But you can
Speaker 1: also register to win tickets for Tomorrownight Sunny Radio dot com.
Speaker 1: You can also find tickets for Tomorrownight at Suefallscomedy dot com.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's all over the place and I
Speaker 1: would love to have you come out and join us.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a darn good time again. All of
Speaker 1: the details for that at Sue Fallscomedy dot com.