The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Knicks (and a Crowded East)

Sep 22, 2026 · 2h 37m · take 37 of 42

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Jeselnikthat's one of the reasons I think I was as good as a standup as I became was because I never got into acting.

JeselnikYeah. No, I never got, I never wrote a screenplay. I was just like, this is going to be my thing and I've got to commit to it because I have nothing else. Right. If you have something else, standup is so hard that it's easy to gravitate

Billtowards the But you're on a set for three months and you got, and then somebody wants you to write a book and you're doing that. And then it's like, oh shit, I got to do my, and that's when it falls apart. Yeah.

JeselnikBut doing this, I mean, I'll be 48 in December. Yeah. Like I think the fifties might be my book writing time, uh, if it works out that way. And, but if I think of one joke after this hour is done, then I've got to write an hour just to, to do that joke.

Jeselnikit felt like we hit a run

Lowewith comedy where

Billum the kind of stuff that makes you and i laugh probably

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