\n\tRick Glassman has built a strong following with his podcast, Take Your Shoes Off, where the stand-up comic sees interviewing celebrity guests as almost the perfect first date.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s flirting involved. And flirting doesn\u2019t have to have romantic interest. Flirting to me is similar to repartee \u2013 you nudge a little, you push a little and you let them do the same,\u201d Glassman tells The Hollywood Reporter while bringing his solo show, Ricky\u2019s on the Loose, to the Just For Laughs<\/a> festival in Montreal.<\/p>\n \n\tHe argues the best podcasts are where the vibe of two people meeting for the first time elicits light banter, jokes and playfulness and even subtle courting to see if his guests can work together on movies or TV series Glassman may have in the works. \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHis recent guest comedians, actors, directors and musicians include Alison Brie<\/a>, Lisa Gilroy, Adam Ray making his 28th appearance, Nick Kroll and veteran showrunner Bill Lawrence<\/a>. \u201cUsing play allows you to just be more present, and when you\u2019re present, you\u2019re not projecting what people are doing or why,\u201d Glassman insisted.<\/p>\n \n\tAsked whether his first dates \u2014 sorry, podcast editions \u2014 should ideally end with a kiss of sorts gets Glassman to his stand-up act, where talk of dating etiquette and rules fill his comedic quiver. \u201cWhen do you kiss? Do you ask? How do you ask? I remember I used to be scared of going on dates because, if I\u2019m supposed to go in to kiss, what if I don\u2019t want to yet? And what if they don\u2019t want me to yet?\u201d he ventures. \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tSo Glassman has settled on a podcast, instead, for celebrity connections, with an eye to second dates. \u201cI love when people come on for a second time\u201d on the podcast, he adds. Especially if they want to get high for the occasion as, Glassman explains, \u201cI had a good time with you the first time. Let\u2019s see what it\u2019s like when we\u2019re extra silly.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOf course, Glassman continues with movie and TV work, with recent credits including recurring roles on The Comedians\u00a0and Nobodies. After an upcoming European swing for his comedy tour, Glassman will return for an undisclosed TV gig on the cards.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Just For Laughs comedy festival wraps on the weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rick Glassman has built a strong following with his podcast, Take Your Shoes Off, where the stand-up comic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[136032,132,134,133,136033,136034],"class_list":["post-385800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-alison-brie","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bill-lawrence","tag-just-for-laughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}