Danny McBride's The Righteous Gemstones’s Opening Scene

Good One

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Danny McBride walks Jesse through the opening scene of his new HBO series The Righteous Gemstones. Along the way, they also touch on the first scenes of his other series and films, including Eastbound & Down, The Foot Fist Way, and Vice Principals. Danny talks about where he wanted to go after Vice Principals ended, as well as the research that went into creating a show about Christian megachurches and superstar preachers. Jesse also asks Danny about how he constructs his antiheroes, and the different ways he utilizes the writers rooms on each of his projects. Also included: dick symbolism. The Righteous Gemstones premieres August 18th on HBO. Follow Danny on Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum podcast.
0:03.4	Vulture's Good One Podcast is sponsored by Prime Video.
0:09.2	This August, stand-up has arrived with five new Amazon Original Specials hitting the streaming service, led off on
0:14.3	August 16th with a claimed comedian Jim Gaffkin. A week later on August 23rd, Prime members can
0:19.4	laugh along with Alice Wetterland, Alonzo Bowden, Mikey Winfield, and I mom so hard.
0:24.4	Exclusive stand up on Amazon, it's all in the delivery.
0:27.6	Only on Prime Video. Hello and
0:42.8	a podcast about jokes. I'm your host, Volcher Senior editor Jesse David Fox.
0:47.4	We live in a time where comedians and comedy makers are taken more seriously than ever and it's great for example this
0:55.8	podcast does exactly that that said there isn't exactly a rhyme or reason of why certain people
1:02.2	are taken very seriously by the mainstream and others are not.
1:05.8	But I will say when I talk to comedy people about who is doing it right,
1:09.8	about who is pushing the form to do something more ambitious, more tonally interesting,
1:14.2	one name does routinely come up, and that's Danny McBride.
1:17.6	It's hard to call someone with two HBO series, Eastbound and Down and Vice Principal,
1:21.0	already under his belt under his belt, but I contend the work he does with frequent collaborators
1:25.0	Jody Hill and David Gorde Green is underrated.
1:28.5	Their work is that great.
1:30.2	What they're doing with comedy is singular and thought out and complicated while always still
1:37.0	remaining unmistakably comedy and unmistakably southern. And that includes Danny's
1:42.3	news offering The Righteous Gemstones, which just premiered on HBO.
1:46.0	Almost novelistic in story structure and scope, it follows a family of Zillionaire Televangelists in the South.
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