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Hello and welcome to good one a podcast about jokes. I'm your host Jesse David Fox

Each episode a guest comes on to play a clip of one of their jokes and then discusses how

More importantly why they wrote it this week's guest is Dan Harmon

I think I've been trying to have Dan on since the first season of this podcast and you know at its core

The show is about the structures and forms of comedy and Dan is a guy obsessed with

The way stories are told and sitcom structure and he just felt like always a perfect fit for this show

You know you saw it on community where beyond just sort of doing parodies. They did full-on homages

that allowed Dan and the other writers to

You know fully explore the vocabulary of different TV shows and movies and more recently with Rick and Morty

Which is currently in its fifth season

You see Dan and the writers of that show being able to like layer

sitcom structure and sci-fi and fantasy all on top each other at the same time

In many ways a decade or so ago Dan epitomized many peak TV arrow show runners the the press kept them calling him brilliant

While either ignoring talk of difficult work environment or considering it another sign of his mad genius and

As we discuss Harmon frequently reflects on his failings as a boss at that time

This especially includes his relationship to Megan Gans a breakout community writer and current co-creator mythic quest on Apple TV

Plus to whom Harmon has admitted to all sorts of mistreatment and abuses of power

It's complicated to fully get into

But the basics are Dan fell in love with Megan and then reacted poorly when she didn't reciprocate those feelings

Dan has since apologized publicly which Megan has accepted

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