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Episode One

401 - The Berkeley Comedy Lab (ft. Benny Feldman)

Episode One

Episode One

Comedy

4.8858 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Comedy researchers Tony Livingstein (Benny Feldman @Feldfrog), Dr. Randy Pumper (Branson), Pleaser Bruja (Andrew), and Morgan Jazzwater (Charles) discuss their research and findings. E1 on Patreon: www.patreon.com/e1podcast Ending song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSfNUujzomI

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0:00.0

The following is an archive podcast presented by the Branson and Hudson Foundation for podcast recovery, a Charles Austin company.

0:07.6

It is the first and only episode of the podcast.

0:11.2

Welcome to episode one.

0:13.7

At the Berkeley Comedy Lab, we are not only studying and cataloging comedy itself by genus, but we are innovating new comedy

0:23.3

techniques as well. Today, I, Dr. Randy Pumper, present to you a roundtable discussion presented

0:31.0

by fellow members of the Berkeley Comedy Laboratory. Each of us is an expert within our

0:37.2

own field of comedy research, so come with us today as we go over some recent comedy developments and trends and look to the future of comedy. Before we get into all the discussion about laughs and academia and how we are handling this particular situation.

0:58.2

I would go ahead and throw to my fellow guests of the roundtable.

1:01.1

First up, I would like to introduce pleaser Bruja.

1:02.4

How are you doing today?

1:03.6

Is it Bruges or Bruja?

1:04.8

Bruja.

1:05.5

Thank you.

1:10.0

I'm new to the comedy lab, the new recruit, I guess.

1:15.0

I'm not funny, but I'm here to hopefully learn how to be funny.

1:16.2

Right.

1:20.3

Well, we're more of a thing where we're researching comedy itself.

1:25.6

So as I told you before, it's not really a requirement of this job for you to be funny. Oh, sure, sure.

1:26.4

Just understanding that we are going. You know, doing this research will help me develop, you know, the funny bone, as they say. I actually don't have a funny bone in either of my arms. Right. Okay. Yeah. Okay. You know, we're more of a clinical thing, so you don't have to keep telling them how you're not funny. There's nothing really to gain from that.

1:46.2

Thank you very much for being with us here today.

1:49.0

Pleaser, I understand you want to try some jokes out with us later.

1:53.0

Again, to my left, I would like to thank our benefactor, Mr. Tony Livingstein.

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