36. Gary Gulman: The Joke Nerd Summit You've Been Waiting For

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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These two comedy nerds discuss the elements of math, science, art, and music that go into constructing the perfect joke as they trade collected wisdom about writing from Steve Martin, Mary Karr, Robert Lowell, Philip Roth, and Anne Lamott. They also dig into the rule of 3s, growing up in Massachusetts, the difference between “book smahrt” and “street smaht” and how Gary turned tragedy into comedy in his hit HBO special, “The Great Depresh.” https://donate.hki.org/

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, we are back with a new episode working it out.
0:11.9	This is a very exciting episode today with Gary Gullman.
0:15.2	But first I want to send a quick shout out to all of our friends who came to the worldwide
0:19.4	comedy pizza party.
0:21.8	This is unprecedented.
0:23.0	We're doing two encore performances in case you missed it.
0:27.8	We're doing April 16th and 17th because the Friday's Saturday show sold out so quickly
0:33.9	that we decided, well, why don't we add some a different weekend.
0:37.5	So April 16th and 17th, Friday and Saturday, 9pm Eastern tickets at burbigs.com.
0:46.2	Today on the show we have one of the greatest living comedians.
0:50.7	He has many, many comedy specials and albums.
0:53.6	The most recent of which is something of a masterpiece.
0:57.4	It's called The Great Depression.
0:59.5	He speaks very, very honestly about his bouts with depression in very funny and very honest
1:08.0	ways.
1:09.6	We get really into craft in this episode.
1:12.3	We get really into working out jokes.
1:14.3	It's a very good interplay of true criticisms of jokes, which is so fun to do.
1:23.6	And I love Gary Gullman.
1:25.4	And I hope you enjoy my chat with The Great Gary Gullman.
1:32.4	You know, it's funny.
1:38.6	I was rewatching The Depression.
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