Comedians have been telling jokes about their spouses for as long as there have been comedians.

No one will mistake Danny Jolles’ marriage material for Rodney Dangerfield’s or Ray Romano’s. Jolles, who performs April 18 and 19 at the Funny Farm Comedy Club, loves marriage.

Men make jokes about their nagging wives and women tell stories about their dumb husbands, Jolles said, “But the problem is people don’t see the part where we go home and we close the door and we’re alone and we’re like, ‘I can’t live without you.’ So that’s the thing I’ve started talking about more. ‘Hey, you want to hear the part we don’t talk about?’ and really trying to defend marriage.

“It’s fun seeing how, when I start talking about it, how nervous married people are out of the gates, ‘Here comes the bashing.’ And when I slowly go, ‘I think it’s awesome, it’s great,’ and then seeing them kind of come out and go, ‘Yeah, it is.’ It’s so lame to say you like being married, but I try to make it funny.”

Jolles will have no shortage of things to talk about when he comes to Niles.

He will be on the fourth season of the Emmy Award-winning comedy “Hacks,” which debuts today on MAX. Jolles plays Nate, one of the writers hired for the late-night talk show hosted by Jean Smart’s stand-up comedian character, Deborah Vance.

He wasn’t revealing any spoilers for the new season, but after working on the show, he understands why it is one of the best comedies on television today.

“Just the way they operate. There’s so many times on set where they would do a joke and then they’d be like, ‘OK, do it this way.’ And they’d do it and then ‘All right, now say it this way,’ and all three of them were phenomenal,” Jolles said. “Jean would make a choice, then she’d make a different choice and then she’d make a different choice, I’d be like, all three of those are sensational choices. I think the coolest part is it’s such a great show, and there must be just so many great moments that you don’t even see because they just get everything. It’s gonna be a great season.”

Jolles had a role in the film “Babylon” and guest spots on other television series, but his first regular television gig was playing George and appearing on about one-third of the episodes for the musical-comedy series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” which was created by his college friend, Rachel Bloom.

“Rachel always did musical comedy, and I was a comedian who could sing, so I was always a go-to to get in there with her,” he said. “I took it as an honor, and it kept me in musical theater.

I love musical theater. I’m just a big musical theater guy who ended up in standup comedy.

“When I got on the show, the problem was, I know how to do it good, but there’s people on that show who are Broadway trained … Compared to them, I have literally no clue what I was doing. It was intimidating at times, just watching how quickly three-quarters of the cast would be like, ‘Got it,’ and me and a couple others would be like, ‘Gonna need to see it again. Gonna need to see it a bunch. Please help me.’ But we got there.”

He also enjoyed working with Adam Schlesinger, one of the show’s principal songwriters, who also wrote for Broadway (“Cry-Baby,” “An Act of God”) and the movies (the title track for “That Thing You Do”) and played in such bands as Fountains of Wayne, Tinted Windows and Ivy. Schlesinger died from COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic.

“Adam was the absolute best,” Jolles said.

Initially it was intimidating working with him because of his talent, Jolles said, but Schlesinger made it easy to work with him.

“My musical theater downfall is, it takes me a while to learn things. So when we did the live version of the show for the final episode, I got to do my little song, but they changed a couple notes. I’m not as talented as some of these guys. I can’t do it right away. It takes me a while.”

Schlesinger casually worked with him until he got it right.

“That is so beneath him to have to teach me, and he did it so kindly,” Jolles said. “It allowed me to get through that, and I learned it immediately. That’s just the kind of guy he was. You would never know what a genius he was based on the kindness of that moment alone.”

Jolles may like musical theater, but stand-up comedy always has been his first love. He credited his father with exposing him to old school comedy like the movies of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, and the work of Sid Caesar.

“The coolest thing about stand-up comedy is there’s no gatekeepers,” he said. “Anybody can go and do stand-up comedy. That’s not true of most professions. That’s not true of even most entertainment things. You can’t just act on a TV show tomorrow. You can’t just write on a TV show. You can’t just be a plumber. There’s people in the way, there’s money (required).

“But standup comedy? There’s a place near you that you can go to, and I love that. When I was studying acting at NYU, I just found myself being like, ‘There’s one avenue that nobody can stop.’ It went from just I love this art form to it’s really the fairest one. And that made me just obsessed.”

He also prefers working smaller rooms like the Funny Farm Comedy Club. When Jolles did his first stand-up comedy special, “Six Parts” (which was named one of the best stand-up specials of 2021 by the New York Times and Paste magazine), he used non traditional venues like an art gallery and a surf shop and worked in front of as few as 30 people.

“The tighter the room, the more we’re all in it together,” Jolles said. “There’s a real feeling of, I’m gonna make it live in the room, so every show is gonna be unique. Whatever show you come to of mine in Youngstown, that’s gonna be a very different show than the one that happened hours before. It will be a little different.”

His second special, 2022’s “You Choose,” employs a “choose your own adventure” concept and allows viewers to pick what approach he takes to different topics over the course of the hour. Jolles said his third special already has been filmed, and it also was done with a unique approach he wasn’t ready to reveal until he decides how he wants to release it.

Jolles certainly would like people to come to his shows next weekend in Niles. But for those who might have other plans, he encourages them to go see any live comedy show.

“If you’re reading this and you haven’t gone to a stand-up show in a while or ever, go see live stand-up comedy, because it is just so amazing in the room,” Jolles said. “It’s a special art form. I think people see it online and they’re like, “Yeah, I like it,’ but it’s different in the room. It’s the best night out you can have.”

If you go …

WHO: Danny Jolles

WHEN: 8 p.m. April 18 and 7 p.m. April 19

WHERE: Funny Farm Comedy Club, 1201 Youngstown-Warren Road, Niles

HOW MUCH: $25 with tickets available online at funny

farmcomedyclub.com and by calling 330-759-HAHA.