Comedian Corey B Talks Netflix Is a Joke Fest, Yankees vs Mets & More w/ Rich

Corey B walked into the studio fresh off a Netflix Is a Joke Fest set at the Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica, with upcoming dates in Cincinnati and Virginia Beach. Rich pivoted the conversation almost immediately to the comedian's most pressing problem: his nine-year-old son is a Mets fan in a Yankees household.

Corey B grew up in Tampa before the Devil Rays existed, when the Yankees held spring training in town. "I was a Yankees fan. I was a Derek Jeter fan, Alex Rodriguez, Tino Martinez, Darryl Strawberry," he said. He moved through Tampa to a radio internship, his first real on-air job in New Orleans, then Chicago, then New York City. Once his first New York tax return cleared, he says, the matter was closed. He was a New Yorker.

His son, Lexington, did not get the memo.

"He likes to oppose everything that I do," Corey said. "He's a Mets fan." Corey blamed a possible amoeba in the water during pregnancy. He blamed Juan Soto. He blamed everything except the actual answer, which was simply that Lexington wanted his own team.

Rich offered Rich Eisen Show Consulting. The pitch was straightforward. The Yankees deliver more championship possibilities, more World Series appearances, and a measurably happier baseball life than the Mets. Lexington, undeterred, has reportedly informed his family that he plans to play for the Dodgers as the second coming of Shohei Ohtani. Corey has tried to remind him of the height and ancestry obstacles. Rich added a structural one: the Dodgers' star players defer enormous portions of their salaries to manage the luxury tax. "Ask him to defer his allowance," Rich suggested.

The baseball detour led somewhere real. Corey played travel ball through age 18, ranked nationally every year, and even played in Japan. He wanted to be Derek Jeter or Nomar Garciaparra. Then puberty waited until he was 26. "Every coach looked at me, they're like, nah, not even 120 pounds soaking wet are you going to make this college baseball," he said. He had heart. "My heart wasn't big enough."

The end came at a Christian college. He was caught at a party with alcohol he wasn't drinking. The coach cut him. "Jesus took the wheel," Corey said. He went into comedy and radio.

The path to viral comedy ran through a third-grade teacher who told him school wasn't for him and he had better find entertainment or else. He kept that on file. During the pandemic, with banana bread takes saturating the internet, Corey started reacting to ridiculous recipes. The first true breakout was a sketch where he played both himself and his fiance during a chaotic car ride. Then came the rug. Someone online claimed beer could clean up ragu. Corey poured ragu on a brand-new white rug to test it. It did not work. His fiance's reaction made the video. "As long as you can buy a new rug," she told him. He bought all the rugs after that.

The Lexington question stayed open. TJ offered the truth that being a Mets fan would make the kid stronger as a human being. Chris Brockman volunteered that the Yankees have four titles in his lifetime, none since 2009, which is still more recent than 1986. Rich, a Michigan Wolverine fan, related to losing seasons by playing Uno with his kids.

Corey closed with a parenting note. He's making Lexington take the subway to Yankee Stadium. Lessons there too.