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Ep. 112 - Comedy and Code - Part II (Baratunde Thurston)

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Tech News, Technology

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We talk to Baratunde Thurston about how he brought together product development and comedy in his recent role at the Daily Show, how he uses coding and technology as tools, and how we should balance our responsibility as coders with having fun.

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0:00.0

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0:01.6

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0:02.7

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0:18.2

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0:28.2

go to amazon.com.ukau the hopes of helping you on yours.

0:43.7

I'm your host, Aran, and before we kick off the show, I want to tell you about our incredible sponsors.

0:49.1

Today, we are continuing our conversation with writer, comedian, and cultural critic, Barrettume Day Thurston.

0:54.7

Here's part two of comedy and code.

0:57.1

So one of the things that you've done recently, which I think is really, really cool, is that you worked for the Daily Show.

1:02.6

You were the supervising producer for digital expansion.

1:06.3

What exactly does that mean?

1:08.5

Yeah.

1:09.0

Well, it doesn't mean anything anymore because I don't have the job anymore

1:11.7

but it did mean that as I as I interpreted the broad mandate of that job because there was no one who

1:20.3

was in that position before me and it's had to kind of make it up as I go along which a lot of your

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