Comedy Week: Film

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On The Gist, screenwriters Dana Fox and John August, and film critic K. Austin Collins are here to talk all about the comedy film. What makes a funny movie? how has that changed over the years? And has humor just creeped its way into all the other genres without us realizing? Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.6	Let's just say it may.
0:07.0	["Main Theme Song"]
0:10.9	It's Thursday, September 19th, 2019.
0:14.3	From Slate It's the Gest I'm Mike Pasca.
0:16.4	How often does that happen?
0:18.0	What's the month?
0:19.0	Let's all go to the movies.
0:20.2	Let's all go to the movies.
0:21.6	Let's all go to the movies.
0:23.5	And find ourselves at a crossroads.
0:27.4	Well, when isn't anything at a crossroads?
0:29.3	Is everything at a crossroads?
0:31.0	Said maybe the idea of crossroads.
0:33.0	For sure, pavement and yet stop signs, then yet traffic lights.
0:36.1	What's new with crossroads?
0:37.6	Nothing's new.
0:38.4	They're good.
0:39.1	Where was I?
0:39.8	I.S. In the middle, or actually the tail end,
0:42.7	approaching the tail end, the penultimate day of comedy week.
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