3rd Rock From the Sun Reunion (Vulture Festival Version)

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Vulture Fest 2021 was this past weekend, and now we want—nay, *have*—to share all this vulture-y pop culture-y goodness with all you Good One listeners back home! So over the next few weeks we'll be publishing our favorite V Fest panels here on the Good One feed, and first off is... Incoming message from the Big Giant Head: It’s a whole extraterrestrial family reunion for the Solomons as the cast of 3rd Rock From the Sun comes together for the beloved NBC series’ 25th anniversary. John Lithgow, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kristen Johnston, and French Stewart will join moderator and friend of Good One Kathryn VanArendonk to celebrate — and oh my God, they’re GORGEOUS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What if there was a better way to talk to all your friends than through a thousand different messaging apps on a thousand different platforms?
0:06.1	What if you could just find the show you wanted without browsing through infinite tiles in a hundred different streaming apps?
0:12.6	What if you could have all of your stuff everywhere without dealing with some crummy user interface on some unknowable file sharing platform?
0:21.7	This month on the Vergecast, we're looking into connectivity. How we talk to each other, how we talk to our stuff, how we find things online.
0:30.0	All this month, on the Vergecast, available wherever you get podcasts.
0:45.7	Hello, and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes. I'm your host Jesse Dave Fox.
0:50.3	This week on the show, we have a panel from Vulture Festival, which happened in LA last weekend.
0:55.0	There was just so much great stuff at the festival this year, and it felt wrong to deprive you.
0:59.8	So expect to see more from the festival in the coming weeks.
1:03.0	Today, it's the reunion of Third Rock from the Sun.
1:05.9	Marking the 25th anniversary of the show's premiere, the panel featured John Lithgow, Joseph Gordon Levitt, French steward and Christian Johnson, and many surprises, like the most I've ever seen in one panel.
1:17.1	Created by former SNL writers Bonnie and Terry Turner, Third Rock followed four aliens studying Earth by posing as a family.
1:23.8	It was a really weird sitcom and super funny.
1:28.7	The panels actually the first time the main family members were in the same place together since the show's finale 20 years ago.
1:35.0	So everyone was really emotional, hugging and kissing and showing photos on their phones of their kids and grandkids.
1:41.9	It was all very sweet and the audience was like on fire.
1:46.7	They're like, they've been waiting 20 years.
1:49.4	This is not a show that's particularly heralded at the time.
1:51.7	So it did feel like this is a small club of people who are obsessed with this thing at the center of this chaos was the region's moderator,
2:00.4	Catherine Payne, Aaron Donk, my friend, colleague and coo.
2:03.0	So my Patreon podcast, the specials.
2:05.6	So here is the Vulture Festival reunion of Third Rock from the Sun.
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