Comic Joe List stays grounded as career takes flight

When Joe List got the call that he had landed his own “The Half Hour” special on Comedy Central, he was at the movies. He let it go to voice mail, then got a text from his manager to call ASAP. List suspected the call was about the special, which he tapes Wednesday at Royale along with other comics in the series, but he waited until after the movie was over to call back.

“I was, like, this has to be I got it,” he says, speaking by phone from New York. “So it was distracting me from the movie, but it definitely felt good.”

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Comic Joe List stays grounded as career takes flight