Brian Posehn is a standup comedian and veteran TV-sitcom workhorse, having appeared on Just Shoot Me, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, NewsRadio, and Friends, as well as appearing on and writing for HBO’s Mr. Show with Bob and David and Comedy Central’s The Sarah Silverman Program. He has also appeared in a bunch of movies and is a huge metal fan. After determining upon first phone contact that Posehn was operating an automobile, we decided it would be a Bad Idea to talk to him until he reached his destination, so we called him back.

City Paper: Now you are not driving your car?

Brian Posehn: Nope.

CP: OK, great, thank you.

BP: I crashed right after we hung up.

CP: (laughs) Yeah, it would have been too much for me because they just passed a law here in Maryland about working your phone while you are driving so it would have been super bad if something happened.

BP: (laughs)

CP: So the last time you were around Baltimore I think was when you guys [Posehn, Patton Oswalt, Zach Galifianakis, and Maria Bamford] did Comedians of Comedy at the Recher Theatre and that was awesome and I was there and I laughed my ass off, and I just remember the visceral shock of hearing you say “Paris Hilton’s rat butthole” and I dunno, that made the night for me for some reason, I dunno why.

BP: I like to paint pictures with my words.

CP: You have your new Fart and Wiener Jokes record released. Is there anything you want to mention about that latest accomplishment?

BP: Just to let people know for the show, I’m in this transitional—I talk about it onstage—I’m like in this transitional period in my life and my standup act, still doing some jokes from the record, and then the rest is all new material about my new stupid baby. And then I go back and end up with some jokes from the record, but I’m in this transition where I’m working on new material and lately my baby is my muse.

CP: Congratulations on reproducing.

BP: (laughs)

CP: Successfully!

BP: (ironically exclamatory) We did it!

CP: One of the people you mention on your web site as being an influence is Louis C.K., who shocked everybody by calling his baby an “asshole.” So you’re going through that?