Steve is a NYC stand up comedian and very good friend of mine, he is originally from New Jersey. He runs a weekly open mic called Brainstorm Comedy with his partner Alec Wirth at Judy Z's in the West Village every Wednesday at 6 PM. Steve also has a podcast called The Bridge Burner Podcast.

Topics we spoke about

- The comedy writing process

- Dealing with bugs/rodents in NYC

- NYC squirrels vs other squirrels

- Pigeons in NYC

- Boston becoming PC

- Zohran Mamdani

- Trump 

- New guys in politics

- Master marketing in politics

- No good options for politicians 

- NYC comedy with Zohran as mayor

- Digging a hole in comedy and having to get out

- The Jews voting in NYC

- Principles in politics

- Steve takes his socks off

- Making old jokes from the beginning good now

- Writing routines

- Having a girlfriend and doing comedy

- Going from business to comedy

- How do famous people deal with fame

- How COVID affected us 

- First time getting on stage

- The start of comedy

and much more

Steve’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steve_messner?igsh=NHQwazc1Ymo0YjU=

Brainstorm Comedy’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brainstormcomedylive?igsh=N2o2eTZiMHZvOXZz

Bridge Burner Podcast’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebridgeburnerpodcast?igsh=MTJrdGhkdWM4dDFreg