BEST OF WIO: Jack Antonoff

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Jack Antonoff: Jokes Are The Melodies Of Comedy (Recorded May 2021) Mike welcomes Jack Antonoff who, in addition to writing the music for this podcast, is a multiple Grammy Award-winning musician, and the frontman for Bleachers. He has collaborated and co-written songs with Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen and now he collaborates with Mike on jokes about death and mortality as the two old friends dive deep into the afterlife crisis, what defines “a herb,” and what it means for an artist to “dare to suck.” This episode is packed with jokes, heavy on craft and sprinkled with love.

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0:00.5	When I first was touring, I spent a lot of time
0:03.2	in your home state of New Jersey
0:05.1	because there's tons of comedy clubs in there.
0:08.6	There used to be even more.
0:09.7	We love to laugh, Mike.
0:10.9	Ha ha ha ha ha.
0:18.5	That is the voice of the great Jack Antonov.
0:21.7	Jack Antonov is the creator of the song
0:25.6	that runs through all 107 episodes
0:29.5	of this podcast.
0:31.9	He is the most prolific musician I've ever encountered.
0:35.6	And he's a really close friend of mine.
0:38.2	And he just got married a couple of weekends ago,
0:41.7	which is why we are rearing this classic episode today.
0:47.8	It's a great, honestly, I love this episode.
0:51.6	It's funny because if you've seen the old man in the pool,
0:55.4	you'll hear in this episode of Workshopped Jokes
0:59.0	that have a completely different life
1:01.4	than they ended up having in the old man in the pool.
1:05.2	And one of the things I love about Jack
1:07.4	as a collaborator, of course, he's famous for his own band,
1:11.0	Bleachers, his band Fun.
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