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Mary Beth Barone knows exactly who will be upset with her new boyfriend Netflix unique. “JK RowlingRepublicans, establishment Democrats, British, Irish and Zionist,” he tells me, reading from his Notes program. Katy Perry he sings to his fans – they are male comedians and a girl named Tatiana.” When told that this included half of the US population, he was delighted.
Barone is joke and a simple balance between taste and cynicism. On the stand he constantly insults politicians who have bad morals, sends people to commit sexual acts or asks his audience to have sex with people in the hope of bringing them to the left. In the past five years, he has been getting closer to the public with a Comedy Central web-series, several stand-up spots on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show, and podcast he joined his friend Benito Skinner it is so popular it has its own sales line. The last 12 months have seen his career take off: he is now the host of a very popular TV show (Increase moneydesigned by Skinner), hangs out with the A-list on the Golden Globes red carpet and sits front row at New York fashion week.
He says that Netflix The special feature, Galaxy Brain, is one of the most important features here. “A lot of writing has changed (for comedians) with the Internet, but it’s always special for an hour with a respected network or stream,” says Barone, tucking into a bowl of scrambled eggs at a cafe in Brooklyn. “With this specialty, it feels like you’ve found something very rare and they’re betting on you.”
Brain Galaxy is a riotous, 55-minute whip-smart laugh that captures all the irreverent aspects of dinner party conversation – sex and politics, bad guys and good girls – with passion. Barone describes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “genocide” twice (“unless you’ve heard it the first time”), and later invites the audience to cheer if they like dog style. In a dramatic shift, he abandons his criticism of Maga’s amorality by admitting that he is a Trump-aligned operative. Project 2025 his goal was to rob the poor and give to the rich. “That was it.” without air,” he says. Then he starts to look like a nymph and when his breath is cut off, he beats the cloth and screams to be released.
He said: “It sounds like, ‘I want to make people think.’ But I think that this is one of the most important points in the story of the drama. His goal was to make it so stupid that it starts to be smart.”
His style was not very different in performance Golden Globes official red carpet livestream this year. Dressed to the nines, Barone poked fun at the relaxed side of celebrities and the inane questions that slip through the media’s well-trained voice. It sounded like a red carpet interview for many A-listers to remember: A rock offered to carry Barone with one arm, Tessa Thompson playing the game “pig, marry, kill” with the chosen ones – people and Na’vi – and Hudson Williams of Hot Race he was forced to ponder whether it was difficult to be a male hockey player or a straight male on the plane.
“I wanted everyone to be comfortable and feel like they didn’t have to work hard,” said Barone, who worked on the comedy with actor George Civeris. “I’ve been on the other side where they’ve been interrogating me and everything I knew has gone out of my head and I can’t form a sentence… so I didn’t want people to feel that way.”
Reciprocity was limited. “We have a couple of people whose newscasters were like, ‘We don’t want that out there.’ I don’t want to say who, but if you take me to my spray pan I will tell you not to be on the record.” (Sadly, I can’t.)
She also made some subtle changes in Galaxy Brain to avoid a moment where she might seem like she’s falling down, in a segment where she talks about her battle with an eating disorder. “I had this joke where I said my weight goal was 1.5 Ariana Grandes,” Barone said. “And I keep saying 1.5 Ariana Grandes and one Bella Hadid or two Troye Sivans. This is a joke about me and my mental illness. But I didn’t want people to hear and think I was making a joke about Ariana Grande.”
Barone brings similar thinking to his work in Overcompensating. As Grace, the overbearing older sister to Skinner’s character Benny, she adds depth to a character that could otherwise be a caricature. After being a hit with both viewers and critics, it became one of the latest LGBTQ+-oriented shows to be renewed for a second season. How did it feel to have such a warm reception for his first major drama? “I get chills just thinking about it,” Barone says, throwing his hands up and down his arms.
Barone has been grinding in New York since he left Boston College and moved to the city in 2011. While working at the beginning, he took classes at the local improv-oriented group Upright Citizens Brigade and soon after he quit his job he focused on comedy full time. He said: “I have been doing this job for 10 years now.
Ride, Barone and Skinner’s podcast, shares a spot at the top of the podcast drama chart with right-leaning shows from. Joe RoganTheo Von and Andrew Schulz, the directors whose arrogance and lack of femininity have led them to be brought together by manosphere.
“Comedy has gotten worse,” Barone said. “There are people who want to take money and there’s nothing they can do to get their audience to turn on them. It’s common sense if you think about it. It’s creating an environment where you can say anything and do anything and you won’t be held accountable.”
They are horrified by the rise of Schulz, a self-proclaimed doofus whose Flagrant podcast series makes random racist and sexist comments. invited Trump has free chat ahead of the 2024 election. He said: “I used to see him at the Comedy Cellar (in New York) when I was first starting out. “He was funny – I thought he was hot. I think I got into his DMs at one point,” she recalls with a shudder.
“I’ve seen him create an environment where I say, ‘You just want to promote discrimination and practices that have benefited people who look like you forever.’ I think if money is the most important thing for you, it makes sense,” he says late. “But I have integrity, so I can’t do things like this. It’s hard to admit that those are my friends, technically.”
Leftist audiences don’t give their entertainers equal rights, they think, especially not for women. “I love comedy,” he told the audience in his 2024 YouTube special Giving Thoughts. “And being a woman in comedy is fun because the goal is to do your best to be the most hated person in the world.”
I think Lena Dunhamwho somehow became the most hated woman in America after the success of her TV show Girls. “And it goes all the way back to Lucille Ball – she was accused of being a communist!” Barone adds, before going off on a list of funny women who have met with bad luck for what they consider to be small mistakes. “Kathy Griffin, Amy Schumer, Mindy Kaling, Tiffany Haddish … Tina Fey ate cake on SNL and people were crazy.
“Doing (comedy) as a career is a funny thing because I do it myself,” he says. “Unfortunately, it’s a sign that things are going well when people start turning on you.”
Not that it has stopped Barone from sticking his neck out for what he believes. In early 2025, he DMed Zohran Mamdani and asked him if he would be on his stand-up show as part of a segment called Politics for Hot People. On stage at the Brooklyn Bell House, he fried The future mayor of New York, regarding his plans, says: “Politicians are liars, so how can we believe that these things can be done?”
That takes courage, I say. “Maybe there is something in my brain that I don’t know even when things are inappropriate for people,” he replies. “I just asked him questions that I wanted to know the answers to.” The same goes for my sense of humor. And I say, ‘But it’s true.’
Comedy isn’t the only way to change people’s minds, but laughter makes politics less of a black box. To celebrate this special occasion, Barone is planning a series of fun weekend events including a pool party at a Brooklyn spa and the Galaxy Brain Ball, a party hosted by Skinner at a local queer club. He said: “I wanted to do things with the people I made so special.
It’s hard to describe Barone’s changing behavior as more eyes turn to him. He said: “It’s hard for me to know how much more I can say. But I want to write about what’s going on in my life, and even though it might be very difficult and personal, that’s what I want to say.”
