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Volcher Senior Editor, Jesse Tippe Fox. Usually, we have a comedian come on to play a clip of

one of their bits and then discuss how they wrote it and how it fits into

what they're trying to do with their comedy.

But not this week. Everything is different living in this pandemic and I want to do an

episode that acknowledged that. After this we will return to our normal

episodes. These past few weeks I've been thinking about my life

pre-COVID and what I didn't appreciate enough as I'm sure a lot of people have. And I am very

privileged to have this show where I can talk to comics I admire so much, but I have for a while now

taking comedy as a life experience for granted. Before all this, people would ask how often I'm seeing

shows, assuming it's a lot, as to them that would be really cool getting to laugh for work

But the truth is I was going to see live comedy maybe once a month max I still enjoyed comedy but I would just focus on what had been filmed and recorded, but I could watch at home.

Right now, I regret that. What do you find funny is very personal. You laugh before you talk, so to be in a room with 50, 100, 400, 4,000 strangers,

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