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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jesse and Chris Gethard discuss the transition from improviser to stand-up comedian, and then dissect the quintessential “Gethard Joke.” Chris recounts wrapping The Chris Gethard Show, his ambitious HBO special Career Suicide, and what’s problematic about applying the idea of “swim at your own risk” to live comedy. You can follow Chris Gethard on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes.
0:13.5	I'm your host, Jesse David Fox.
0:16.0	Each episode a guest comes on to play a clip of one of their jokes and then discusses
0:19.6	how they wrote it and how it represents what they're trying to do with their comedy.
0:24.5	With his new stand-up special slash tour documentary Half My Life coming out, we thought we'd
0:28.6	rerun our interview with Chris Gether from 2018.
0:31.8	I've been following Chris's career pretty closely for as long as I've been covering comedy.
0:36.0	When he moved back to New York, the first time I ever saw Improv was at the Douglas
0:40.8	Marathon and he had a fairly legendary show as part of the Improv group he was with,
0:46.5	the SIP Fathers that that first night.
0:50.0	And I also then saw Chris slowly do less and less improv and focus more and more on stand-up
0:55.2	as I also was going to see more and more stand-up.
0:59.0	And I've interviewed Chris a few times.
1:01.1	I actually interviewed Chris for a pilot for a podcast that never aired where we just
1:07.2	talked about death for like two and a half hours.
1:11.4	I don't know why no one wanted to run the saddest show ever, but thankfully we both ended
1:17.3	up getting more listenable podcasts.
1:20.6	He has beautiful anonymous and I have the show that you're currently listening to.
1:25.3	Today, Chris Gether has transitioned into a comedy mogul of source.
1:31.0	As during the pandemic, he created a comedy network that airs weirdo comedians shows
1:37.0	on Twitch called Planet Scum.
1:39.8	When this interview was recorded, I had recently seen Chris Gether perform at the Comedy
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